To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Even now one is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience One thinks with a watch in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. — 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