Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear". Friedrich Nietzsche eye idols reality Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept. Friedrich Nietzsche metaphor animal men The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself. Friedrich Nietzsche instant metaphor men Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. Friedrich Nietzsche errors littles men Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences. Friedrich Nietzsche age war ideas A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty. Friedrich Nietzsche doe lying art The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence Friedrich Nietzsche existence persons doe Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt. Friedrich Nietzsche soul humanity men The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage. Friedrich Nietzsche adultery moral might To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up. Friedrich Nietzsche home heart wind When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself. Friedrich Nietzsche contradicting lasts together I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts. Friedrich Nietzsche strings concepts ego Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing. Friedrich Nietzsche wisdom feelings science It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical plato wisdom In the end one only experiences oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche oneself ends I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along. Friedrich Nietzsche want running moving You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. Friedrich Nietzsche good-war causes war It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. Friedrich Nietzsche fallibility worms spirit There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. Friedrich Nietzsche enough world Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. Friedrich Nietzsche noisy feels believe
