No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency. Those whom I deemed Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed, Have aged and lost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth....… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — 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
