“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that an “impulse to knowledge” is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Every philosophy which believes that the problem of existence is touched on, not to say solved, by a political event is a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter… — 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
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