In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself… — 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
There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — 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
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