“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
“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 it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — 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
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.” — 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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by: they do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap… — 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
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And ye also, to whom life is rough labour and disquiet, are ye not very tired of life? Are ye not very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — 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
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at… — 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
“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
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
