Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A small company is more welcome to me than a bad one: but they must come and go at the right time.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!" — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We are misidentified—because we ourselves keep growing, keep changing,127 we shed our old bark, we shed our skins every spring, we keep… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Though I may seem at times somewhat distant from you, through the gray mist of philology, I am never far, my thoughts… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! — 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
