Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. — 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
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept… — 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
