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 What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it. Friedrich Nietzsche soul evil dream Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them. Friedrich Nietzsche grateful enemy way The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty self men Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment. Friedrich Nietzsche plato philosophy art No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. Friedrich Nietzsche men [Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust. Friedrich Nietzsche unjust evil The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God. Friedrich Nietzsche barbarism sole god-love Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy. Friedrich Nietzsche envy lucky giving One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. Friedrich Nietzsche boredom passion book It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will. Friedrich Nietzsche errors responsibility mistake And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself? Friedrich Nietzsche forgiveness success life If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable Friedrich Nietzsche bearable ifs Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? Friedrich Nietzsche sin today love Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Friedrich Nietzsche contempt vanity behinds Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Friedrich Nietzsche quality strong art The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. Friedrich Nietzsche machines technology years Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Friedrich Nietzsche experience doe desire Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores! Friedrich Nietzsche russia honesty stupid If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning. Friedrich Nietzsche ifs education But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely. Friedrich Nietzsche stupid two people