Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity. Friedrich Nietzsche changedreamlong Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. Friedrich Nietzsche doneevilmay Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. Friedrich Nietzsche powerfoodmen Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge. Friedrich Nietzsche revengeheartmen Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. Friedrich Nietzsche agesounddeath When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God. Friedrich Nietzsche selfpathfirsts The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly. Friedrich Nietzsche envyhateeye On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche perseverancetruthmeaningful Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. Friedrich Nietzsche drugstrongwar Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. Friedrich Nietzsche smellmadidols He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche delightlanguageknowledge There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic. Friedrich Nietzsche intuitionagemen The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard. Friedrich Nietzsche noble-manpowerfulmen And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche laughtertruthhappiness The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist. Friedrich Nietzsche atheismexcusereligion If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect. Friedrich Nietzsche usesorrymay Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophercynicismanimal Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. Friedrich Nietzsche soulfeelingsattitude Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Friedrich Nietzsche maturitymenchildren Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting. Friedrich Nietzsche painpridefeelings
