He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche funny-inspirational philosophical memories Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical soul philosophy Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy firsts thinking There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes. Friedrich Nietzsche bags clothes men Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up. Friedrich Nietzsche hero pregnancy lying Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out. Friedrich Nietzsche roots easy love Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven. Friedrich Nietzsche triumph fate heaven Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals. Friedrich Nietzsche criminals lying facts A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. Friedrich Nietzsche laughter animal men Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity. Friedrich Nietzsche charity principles christian We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths. Friedrich Nietzsche legs path long [Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty. Friedrich Nietzsche regal certainty air And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets. Friedrich Nietzsche mirrors lying reality All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity. Friedrich Nietzsche nature men insanity You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! Friedrich Nietzsche over-you spring needs Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone. Friedrich Nietzsche cost pain suffering Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. Friedrich Nietzsche church want men Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life. Friedrich Nietzsche nausea atheism christianity Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. Friedrich Nietzsche paradise tree knowledge Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep. Friedrich Nietzsche historical atheist doubt
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