Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous. — 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
Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more… — 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
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it… — 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
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
... 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
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — 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
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. — 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
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
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. — 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
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
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
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
