Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. — 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
