Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not… — 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