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
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit… — 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
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — 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
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space… — 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
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
