I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A sign of strong character, when once the resolution has been taken, to shut the ear even to the best counter-arguments. Occasionally,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — 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