It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of… — 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
“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,… — 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
