Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the… — 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
I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — 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
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — 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
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — 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