Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — 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
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my… — 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
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls… — 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
