It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into 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
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Error has turned animals into men; might truth be capable of turning man into an animal again?” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So long as the priest, that denier, calumniator and poisoner of life by profession, still counts as a higher kind of human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For all the value that the true, the truthful, the selfless may deserve, it would still be possible that a higher and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish… — 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