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
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time… — 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
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — 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
Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Image
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