In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — 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
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — 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
