Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad. Friedrich Nietzsche poison drinking people We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets. Friedrich Nietzsche neighbor mood secret When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him. Friedrich Nietzsche maturity men father In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages. Friedrich Nietzsche too-much age looks Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche crowds trying water The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance. Friedrich Nietzsche fellowship weakness principles I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example! Friedrich Nietzsche example brother player The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche truth mouths lying The truthful man ends up realizing that he always lies. Friedrich Nietzsche truthful men lying When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either. Friedrich Nietzsche standing failing should It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. Friedrich Nietzsche errors taste believe Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is. Friedrich Nietzsche truthfulness truthful enough They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way. Friedrich Nietzsche climbing stupid beautiful Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him. Friedrich Nietzsche nausea fate men A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. Friedrich Nietzsche thanks gratitude soul But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all? Friedrich Nietzsche vitality doe life A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral. Friedrich Nietzsche evil long people The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. Friedrich Nietzsche favors waiting people I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness essentials play When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings. Friedrich Nietzsche party feelings might