“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — 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
The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call… — 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
Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. — 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
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
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
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — 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
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
