Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. — 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
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail… — 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
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been… — 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
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — 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
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical… — 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
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — 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