The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. — 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
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — 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
He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always gives, and desires… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of… — 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
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
