What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! — 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
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to… — 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
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had… — 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
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
And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively… — 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
Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you… — 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
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
For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men'… — 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
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and… — 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
