The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence — 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
