Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“They dislike, therefore, to hear of 'contempt' of themselves. So I will appeal to their pride.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,… — 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