Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
