Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — 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
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions. — 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
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of… — 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
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,… — 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
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image