The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the… — 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
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — 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 freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long 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 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 about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — 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 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