What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. — 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
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. — 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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — 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