The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who… — 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