The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. — 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
We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy… — 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 freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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 about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
