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
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
If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — 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
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — 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
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
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — 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
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
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — 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
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — 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
He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having… — 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
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can… — 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
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — 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
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
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
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
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
