Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. — 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
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards… — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
