Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any… — 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
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — 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
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — 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
