We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in… — 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
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That immense framework and planking of concepts to which the needy man clings his whole life long in order to preserve himself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — 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
“The free intellect copies human life, but it considers this life to be something good and seems to be quite satisfied with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever surpass itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — 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
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. — 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