Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed." — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." ―Epigrams… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He wants to be known deep down, abysmally deep down, before he is capable of being loved at all; he dares to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You shall love beyond yourselves some day! So first, learn to love. And for that you have to drink the bitter cup… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Out of love alone shall my despising and my warning bird fly up, not out of swamp. (...) Where one can no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — 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