To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — 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