There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — 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
