Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it… — 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
