“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“By saying 'God sees into the heart' it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are misidentified—because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing,127 we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — 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
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
