The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — 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
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Pity preserves things that are ripe for decline, it defends things that have been disowned and condemned by life, and it gives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps species-rearing, and we are fundamentally inclined to maintain that the… — 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
“Short-sighted people are amorous. Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man; and if someone had the power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is the sign of every literary decadence ? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is an eternal phenomenon: the insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — 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
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — 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
