To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — 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
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
Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves. — 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
