From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeated,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. — 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
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one… — 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
