It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the… — 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 spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — 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
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance… — 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
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. — 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
