The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — 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
