“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. — 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
“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It follows that some people need open enemies if they are to rise to the level of their own virtue, virility, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Finally—this is what is most terrible of all—the concept of the good man signifies that one sides with all that is weak,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence: "let us be different from the evil, namely… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it is almost an ordeal, which would make us… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The whole of European morality is based upon what is useful to the herd: the affliction of all higher, rarer men lies… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil: that the slavish morality of meekness, chastity, selflessness, absolute obedience, has triumphed — ruling natures were thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great human being is a finale; the great age — the Renaissance, for example — is a finale. The genius, in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — 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
