God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — 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
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import 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
