The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In this condition one enriches everything out of one's own abundance: what one sees, what one desires, one sees swollen, pressing, strong,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Work and boredom.- Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in… — 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
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man… — 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
