At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is the sign of every literary decadence ? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Was that - life?" I will say to death. "Very well! Once more!” — 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
