After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could… — 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
