one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — 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
