What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — 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
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing… — 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
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who… — 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
