What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man… — 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 belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . . — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary… — 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
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — 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
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“God is dead;1 but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — 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
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — 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
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — 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
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — 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
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
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
