There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it, if there were not a friend? The friend… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How Rhythm Beautifies.- Rhythm casts a veil over reality; it causes various artificiality’s of speech and obscurities of thought; by the shadow… — 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
“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — 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
