There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this… — 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