If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — 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. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — 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
