The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us… — 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
