What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone… — 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
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
I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — 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
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
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — 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
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
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes… — 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
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
My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear… — 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 noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he… — 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
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
