I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — 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
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — 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
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
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — 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
