Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. — 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
