The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The least step forward in the domain of free thought and individual life has been achieved in all ages to the accompaniment… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man permits himself to be lied to at night, his life long, when he dreams, and his moral sense never even tries… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One must learn to love.— This is what happens to us in music: first one has to learn to hear a figure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — 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