Eye Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche