No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — 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, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal… — 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