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
'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All… — 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
“My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — 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
That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — 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