Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods). — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not… — 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