He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dare only to believe in yourselves- in yourselves and in your inward parts! He who does not believe in himself always lies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth!… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
