Serious Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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

“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“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

“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain makes hens and poets cackle.

— Friedrich Nietzsche