“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“as the "people of the centre" in every sense of the term, the Germans are more intangible, more ample, more contradictory, more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He who does not find greatness in God finds it nowhere. He must either deny it or create it.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For your Bildung you should choose the most difficult and splendid problem, but as subject for a dissertation choose no more than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." ―Epigrams… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Was that - life?" I will say to death. "Very well! Once more!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You desire to LIVE "according to Nature"? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature,… — 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