The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!… — 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
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
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — 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
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his… — 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
