“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.” — 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
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.” — 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
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 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
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
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all… — 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
“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn… — 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
“as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions… — 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
“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
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
“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it… — 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
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
“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7 and above all, his morality bears decided and decisive witness to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — 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
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented… — 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
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
![“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/i/8a4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_philosopher_their-philosophers-thinking-is-in-fact-f_2781328.jpg)
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