The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We… — 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
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — 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
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not… — 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
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
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. — 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
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?” — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image