“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
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And often with our love we want merely to overleap envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die. — 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
