We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. — 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
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Was that - life?" I will say to death. "Very well! Once more!” — 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 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
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. — 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
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy… — 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
But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? — 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 man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man looked up distrustfully. "If you speak the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life. I am… — 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
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — 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
Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The greatest weight.71— What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what your neighbour says? It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — 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
“The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.” — 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
