It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You have been a poor observer of life if you have not also seen the hand that, ever so gently – kills.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He, on the other hand, who really could sympathize therewith, would have to despair of the value of life; were he to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Now, most people bear life without any considerable grumbling, and consequently believe in the value of existence, but precisely because each one… — 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
