A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or… — 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
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — 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
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you. — 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