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
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals… — 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