Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to… — 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
Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful… — 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
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will… — 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
One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning,… — 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 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
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
Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — 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? The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — 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
And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the… — 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
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! — 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
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman. — 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
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
