“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well… — 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
The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — 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
