Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,… — 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