From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — 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