Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no… — 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
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
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
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he… — 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
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
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
Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“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 about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
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
