The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is… — 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
