The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride. He who sees the abyss, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — 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
