As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — 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
