His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — 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
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see…… — 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
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — 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
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — 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
