Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A: So you intend to return to your desert? B: I am not quick moving. I have to wait for myself‚Äî 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