The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love.” — 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
Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. — 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
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man… — 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
“But that "other world" is well concealed from man, that dehumanised, inhuman world, which is a celestial naught; and the bowels of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The whole attitude of 'man against the world', of man as a 'world-negating' principle, of a man as the measure of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Thought of Death. It gives me a melancholy happiness to live in the midst of this confusion of streets, of necessities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. — 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
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! — FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life. — 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
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared! — 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