“A thinker cannot do other than convert his physical condition into the most highly intellectual of forms –this act of transformation is… — 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
“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." ―Epigrams… — 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
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is by no means a sign of great and terrible misery. The emergence of pessimistic philosophies is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear… — 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
“To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Take care, ye philosophers and friends of knowledge, and beware of martyrdom! Of suffering "for the truth's sake"! even in your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit's judgment: "There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look… — 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
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — 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
“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
“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — 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
![“Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ethical_socrates-is-the-first-philosopher-of-lif_1970084.jpg)
![“Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_philosopher_their-philosophers-thinking-is-in-fact-f_2781328.jpg)
