When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas… — 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
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — 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
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
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — 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
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — 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
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — 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