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
“Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead… — 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
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
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
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
When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a… — 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
“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
Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — 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
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
Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. — 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
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
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
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
