The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a… — 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 earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — 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
