I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did… — 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
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
