Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. — 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
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that… — 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
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“as if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Why should one live? All is vain! To live - that is to thresh straw; to live - that is to burn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of… — 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
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. — 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