I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much. Friedrich Nietzsche needs I love those who do not know how to live for today. Friedrich Nietzsche meritlive-for-todaylove What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. Friedrich Nietzsche fathers-daydaddyson Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. Friedrich Nietzsche tyrantsethicsnoses The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies. Friedrich Nietzsche confusedbiographiesconfusion No one is such a liar as the indignant man. Friedrich Nietzsche indignantliarsmen Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead Friedrich Nietzsche classgivingpeople It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. Friedrich Nietzsche feetgivingtwo One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche lightmenart We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophicalseriousfun More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time. Friedrich Nietzsche greatnessmenphilosophy Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche boredomvainstruggle They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed! Friedrich Nietzsche songlooksreligion Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine. Friedrich Nietzsche stupidity Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons. Friedrich Nietzsche horizonperspectivediscipline You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. Friedrich Nietzsche climbingflyingrunning Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things. Friedrich Nietzsche truthreligiousmeaningful Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it. Friedrich Nietzsche strongpersonalityhistory You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you. Friedrich Nietzsche climbsstarsinspirational Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire. Friedrich Nietzsche truthmenbelieve
