“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But how does it happen that the mind of the dreamer is always so mistaken, while the same mind when awake is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins. We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had… — 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
“Necessary.—One of those things that may drive a thinker into despair is the recognition of the fact that the illogical is necessary for man, and that out of the illogical comes much that is good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything that gives value to life, that it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When I analyze the process that is expressed in the sentence, 'I think,' I find a whole series of daring assertions, the argumentative proof of which would be difficult, perhaps impossible: for instance, that it is I who think,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name. — 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
A man who wishes nothing more than daily to lose some reassuring belief, who seeks and finds his happiness in this daily… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and… — 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
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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 freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long 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 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 about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — 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 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
