Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — 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 an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached 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