To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away… — 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
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Can you furnish yourself with your own good and evil and hang up your own will above yourself as a law? Can… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one… — 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
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor;… — 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
