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
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — 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
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
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
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — 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
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — 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
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
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
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
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — 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
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
The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. — 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
