Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. — 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
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October... — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate… — 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