Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“My friends, it was hard for us when we were young: we suffered youth itself like a serious sickness. That is due… — 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
