Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Man is more ape than many of the apes. Friedrich Nietzsche apes men A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment. Friedrich Nietzsche light men war And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. Friedrich Nietzsche blow wind war What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived. Friedrich Nietzsche wells deceived differences My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness life past The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility. Friedrich Nietzsche curls chance humility One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis. Friedrich Nietzsche phoenix giving men In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads. Friedrich Nietzsche stupid water men He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche command should action People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous. Friedrich Nietzsche religious people religion Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche irony pathology and-love Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. Friedrich Nietzsche courage knows Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Nietzsche forgiveness trust powerful Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there! Friedrich Nietzsche ignorant hell religious But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice! Friedrich Nietzsche distrust powerful justice The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. Friedrich Nietzsche alive sake enemy The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical philosophy people Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche limits wisdom knowledge Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. Friedrich Nietzsche cat appearance may Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense". Friedrich Nietzsche army order lying
