FastSaying

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.


Friedrich Nietzsche

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and maki...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The power never to get disappointed with man is by knowing the fact that more than 80% of humans lac...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.
DALAI LAMA XIV A man's character is not determined by his actions but by his reactions
SAJI SAM VARGHESE No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
HERBERT SIMON There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by th...
ANDRE MALRAUX We are the Accumulation of All our Experiences. The Richness and Happiness of our Lives is determine...
LORRIN L. LEE That lack of sharpness is never more exposed than by a pace attack such as the blindingly quick one ...
DENNIS LILLEE When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outsid...
SIMONE WEIL His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
WOODY ALLEN True wealth is not measured by how much riches one has accumulated, it is measured by how much peace...
JACK TYME The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day,...
GEORGE KAISER Everything is undefined, and that is accompanied by a lack of character and principle among the peop...
ISA QOSYA My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
AGNETHA FALTSKOG Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.
JAMES W. PENCE By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be...
JOHN STUART MILL The length, the depth and the strength of your relationship is determined more by your compatibility...
HRISHIKESH AGNIHOTRI No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism th...
WALTER KAUFMANN The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely,...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Life isn't determined by the opinions of others, but by the choices we make in those opinions.
SUSIE L HILL I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR Pain Is Caused By Pleasure
SULLY ERNA Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yoursel...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
FLOWER A. NEWHOUSE After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by...
ETTY HILLESUM Bode is one of those rare individuals who's not deterred by a lack of success. That doesn't seem to ...
CHIP COCHRANE Lack of interest in mission is not fundamentally caused by an absence of compassion or commitment, n...
TIM A. DEARBORN [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered...
PETER SLOTERDIJK The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I probably give him more leeway out of the net than those pros had. He shoots the puck better than a...
GRANT STANDBROOK My biological work convinced me that the One who was declared dead by Nietzsche, and silent by Sartr...
C. J. BRIEJÈR One of a parent’s most important tasks is teaching their children how to communicate effectively a...
BY FAMOUS Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
BY ALEFLETCHER Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gi...
JOHN LUTHER Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gi...
JOHN LUTHER Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift...
JOHN LUTHER Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
ANON. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
ANONYMOUS ... what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers...
NADINE GORDIMER In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist...
OSCAR WILDE It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of ba...
FRANCIS CRICK People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other...
BLAISE PASCAL I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality i...
SADAHARU OH This fire was more significant than some of the other experiences we've had here.
FRANK MCNEICE How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS To become wise, one must "wish" to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping j...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other char...
HARVEY MACKAY He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every lis...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Some people are inspired more to do something by those that put down than by those that inspire
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by o...
BLAISE PASCAL Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in...
DAVID P. GUSHEE There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those ...
DENNIS PRAGER The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
JAPANESE PROVERB The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.
SOURCE UNKNOWN In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe ...
CICERO Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined...
MYLES MUNROE The quality of life is determined by its activities.
ARISTOTLE Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful t...
HELEN FISHER Our relevance is not determined by the opinions of people but by the Love of God.
WAYNE HENRY JONES Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
EDGAR F. MAGNIN Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by th...
GEORGE MACDONALD We're pretty certain the extent and orientation of this bar because we got more data than anybody el...
ED CHURCHWELL Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuati...
MAX STIRNER She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longi...
CATHERINE LACEY Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for th...
ASLAUG MAGNUSDOTTIR I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour i...
ANNE BRONTë Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the pe...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experience...
J. C. WATTS When it comes to negotiating leave, find out what your company's practices are and what kind of bad ...
ELLEN GALINSKY But more than a lack of guidance is a lack of communication, really,
MARLA BACKER An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
HORACE WALPOLE The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which h...
HENRY LOUIS Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans i...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
HERBERT SPENCER Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect
HERBERT SPENCER We want value not only for the things we buy but the experiences we get and all those experiences ar...
ANDY MILLIGAN I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent...
JAMES MADISON There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT Your life is not determined by a problem, but by God, He is the source of victory
SUNDAY ADELAJA The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful a...
VACLAV HAVEL What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. Th...
JAMES MATTIS To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of ...
PAUL ELDRIDGE One thing is for sure. Nothing in life is easy or certain. You'll be fighting until the end. And whe...
LORI GOODWIN Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN Lack of enthusiasm killed more careers than the lack of talent.
MUHAMMED HAIDER All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advanceme...
SAMUEL SMILES

More Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Fear is the mother of morality.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil consc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch up...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is not consolation. It is light.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debat...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary bein...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them sh...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman was God's second mistake.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those wi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a le...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosoph...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does n...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O man! Take heed!
What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
I slept my sleep--,
From deepest...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Apho...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, a...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to acc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not e...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as some...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I have used these weeks to revalue values. Do you understand this expression? When you come right do...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking h...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher polit...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to mar...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Better know nothing than half-know many things
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with trut...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, b...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --he...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man is the cruelest animal.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty argumen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a fun...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction – an intox...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only sick music makes money today.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate indiv...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to com...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. An...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 'Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he ca...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the r...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, ind...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, bo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laug...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impote...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE