When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,… — 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
