One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for… — 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