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
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking. — 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
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
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
What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to… — 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
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
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — 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
Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time… — 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
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
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is… — 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
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary. — 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
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
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
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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
“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
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share