Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not… — 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