The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well! — 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
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 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
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say,… — 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
