There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
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