“Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
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“Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.”
Source: The Essential Nietzsche
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human
“People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.”
Source: Human, All Too Human
“The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.”
“On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.”
“To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Humility has the toughest hide.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.”
Source: The complete works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The first complete and authorized English translation
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.”
Source: The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Source: The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power
“He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“To the mean all becomes mean.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“A married philosopher belongs to comedy.”
Source: Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings
Source: The Genealogy of Morals
Source: The Portable Nietzsche