“Alas, the magic of these battles is that whoever looks at them must also fight them.” — 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
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Go up close to your friend but do not go over to him! We should respect the enemy that is in our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the… — 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
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
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is… — 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
