Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — 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
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — 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
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of… — 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
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
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — 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
