Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he… — 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
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — 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
Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — 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
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he… — 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
