The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“That mountain there! That cloud there! What is 'real' about those? Try taking away the phantasm and the entire human contribution, you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
