Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is… — 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