To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“whenever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world according to its own image, it cannot do otherwise;” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7” — 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
“I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whenever a great thinker wants to make of himself a binding institution for future mankind, one may be certain that he is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — 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
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — 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
“Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that there is everywhere an attempt at present to divert attention from the actual influence which Kant exercised… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.” — 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
“In good company one must never want to be entirely and solely right, which is what all pure logic wants [...].” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.” — 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
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — 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