We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! — 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
Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image