Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. — 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
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
The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — 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
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
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth!… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Why go on clinging to this clod of earth, this way of life, why pay heed to what your neighbour says? It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — 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
“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The root of all evil: that the slavish morality of meekness, chastity, selflessness, absolute obedience, has triumphed — ruling natures were thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too… — 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
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
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit… — 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
“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
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
I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal,… — 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
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert… — 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 essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims, all great things have first to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility… — 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
“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
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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