Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Thus I spoke, and always more softly, for I was afraid of my thoughts, and of the thoughts behind my thoughts. Then,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How Rhythm Beautifies.- Rhythm casts a veil over reality; it causes various artificiality’s of speech and obscurities of thought; by the shadow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is not just a vis inertiae, as superficial people believe, but is rather an active ability to suppress, positive in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share