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 Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes. Friedrich Nietzsche pity virtue I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Friedrich Nietzsche religious christian integrity Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. Friedrich Nietzsche life lying reality If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good. Friedrich Nietzsche shame evil enemy Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave. Friedrich Nietzsche slave work two Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche distrust proof tolerance In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. Friedrich Nietzsche god men needs Every profound spirit needs a mask. Friedrich Nietzsche spirit profound needs Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure. Friedrich Nietzsche equality real opposites For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason. Friedrich Nietzsche born reason needs Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so. Friedrich Nietzsche cat giving And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over. Friedrich Nietzsche passion errors self I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals. Friedrich Nietzsche monsters animal men Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame. Friedrich Nietzsche badness shame want We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance. Friedrich Nietzsche emotional wise sympathy Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). Friedrich Nietzsche spinsters analysis lasts The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts. Friedrich Nietzsche errors society party Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things. Friedrich Nietzsche destiny heart men Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned. Friedrich Nietzsche woods funeral littles How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. Friedrich Nietzsche errors would-be sound
