To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking),… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — 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
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his… — 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