If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it. — 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
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — 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
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — 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
The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — 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
