It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Precisely the least thing, the gentlest, lightest, the rustling of a lizard, a breath, a moment, a twinkling of the eye -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. — 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
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all… — 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 time is gone when mere accidents could still happen to me; and what could still come to me now that was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My friends, it was hard for us when we were young: we suffered youth itself like a serious sickness. That is due… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Can you give yourself your own evil and your own good and hang your own will over yourself as a law? Can… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show… — 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
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite.” —Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. — 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
