Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — 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 inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge.… — 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
How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — 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
