“To say it for those who know how to explain a thing: women have the intelligence, men the heart and passion. This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Comparing man and woman generally, one may say that woman would not have the genius for adornment, if she had not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The free intellect copies human life, but it considers this life to be something good and seems to be quite satisfied with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity. — 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
