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 The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies. Friedrich Nietzsche age lying people Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. Friedrich Nietzsche caricatures tendencies opponents Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. Friedrich Nietzsche nature truth art To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them. Friedrich Nietzsche grateful thank-you enemy Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness. Friedrich Nietzsche visions-of-the-future strength two There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism educational truth He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. Friedrich Nietzsche obscure crowds profound Those who create are hard of heart. Friedrich Nietzsche hard heart One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons. Friedrich Nietzsche prison spirit men Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. Friedrich Nietzsche antichrist humanity christianity Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters. Friedrich Nietzsche christian looks religion What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche pity vices christianity Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! Friedrich Nietzsche ancient punishment festivals I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive. Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice stars earth Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. Friedrich Nietzsche offensive empathy apathy I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument. Friedrich Nietzsche creating creativity want Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love. Friedrich Nietzsche hate rose people In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. Friedrich Nietzsche pain suffering self A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous". Friedrich Nietzsche physicians nerves matter Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly. Friedrich Nietzsche aristocracy good-man eye
