Wells Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Was that life? Well then, once more!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche