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
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“ The one necessary thing .— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“More honestly and purely speaks the healthy body, perfect and square-built; and it speaks of the meaning of the earth.-” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long—that is the sign of strong, full… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Many lands saw Zarathustra, and many peoples: no greater power did Zarathustra find on earth than the creations of the loving ones—"good”… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Zarathustra saw many lands and many peoples: thus he discovered the good and evil of many peoples. No greater power did Zarathustra… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sicknesses, especially those affecting nerves and head, are signs that the defensive strength of the strong natures is lacking; precisely this is… — 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
