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 patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of… — 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
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
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
But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — 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
