Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — 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
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say,… — 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 freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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 about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
