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
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
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — 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
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To… — 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