Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wherever life and knowledge seemed to contradict each other, there was never any serious struggle: in such cases, denial and doubt amounted… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“... all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The visible action is not the self-manifestation of the inward life, but only a weak and crude attempt of a single thread… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — 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
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Weakness is in demand—why?... mostly because people cannot be anything else than weak. Weakening considered a duty: The weakening of the desires,… — 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 secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the… — 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
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
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
