Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent. Friedrich Nietzsche yesterdayanimalnight Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. Friedrich Nietzsche mediocritymajoritysake One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. Friedrich Nietzsche healthyloveneeds My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it Friedrich Nietzsche amorgreatnessdifferent It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. Friedrich Nietzsche deceptionpowerfulself Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. Friedrich Nietzsche yieldstupiditymean One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. Friedrich Nietzsche pupilsexistentialismteacher Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind. Friedrich Nietzsche contraryextremesposition The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). Friedrich Nietzsche trippinglevelsdesire A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Friedrich Nietzsche atheistsuccessinspirational You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again! Friedrich Nietzsche rejuvenationflamescourage Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche creatingsalvationsuffering The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable. Friedrich Nietzsche changeacceptanceinspirational Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. Friedrich Nietzsche sufferingjoyfriendship What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche resistancegrowingfeelings The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. Friedrich Nietzsche hellidealistheaven Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? Friedrich Nietzsche musicdanceeducation Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. Friedrich Nietzsche distortionlanguagereality Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. Friedrich Nietzsche daddoefather What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil. Friedrich Nietzsche doneevillove
