Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on… — 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
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
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see....… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice… — 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
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves… — 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
To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the… — 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
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