What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away… — 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
When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way:… — 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
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have… — 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
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one… — 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
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
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
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
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — 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
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
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
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. — 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
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share