Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." ―Epigrams… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it… — 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
It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Image
