Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — 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
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties… — 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
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — 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
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics. — 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
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and… — 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
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines… — 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