One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To… — 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
