In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality. Friedrich Nietzsche fate dream believe Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. Friedrich Nietzsche apes men There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche power self exercise You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed? Friedrich Nietzsche shoes people world Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed. Friedrich Nietzsche highest men Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'. Friedrich Nietzsche despair adventure men Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. Friedrich Nietzsche nature lying knowledge The text has disappeared under the interpretation. Friedrich Nietzsche interpretation Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. Friedrich Nietzsche daughter mother father We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love. Friedrich Nietzsche hate revenge men Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God. Friedrich Nietzsche turkeys atheism priests We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. Friedrich Nietzsche opponents virtue absence Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning. Friedrich Nietzsche nature goal law The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self. Friedrich Nietzsche knowing-who-you-are self lying We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery. Friedrich Nietzsche adventure war mean THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly. Friedrich Nietzsche educational teacher people There is always some madness in love. Friedrich Nietzsche crush sexy love Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. Friedrich Nietzsche god evil father Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. Friedrich Nietzsche gnats thieves criminals The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. Friedrich Nietzsche government lying people