The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If… — 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
