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 Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight. Friedrich Nietzsche eye hatred sight Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. Friedrich Nietzsche power winning giving One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation. Friedrich Nietzsche communication purpose thinking "This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist! Friedrich Nietzsche independent answers doe Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers. Friedrich Nietzsche grief eye children Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. Friedrich Nietzsche exercise men history The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them. Friedrich Nietzsche reading hands people The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower. Friedrich Nietzsche betrayal party followers It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. Friedrich Nietzsche suicidal suicide night There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time. Friedrich Nietzsche recognition greatness age Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. Friedrich Nietzsche taken temptation self I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception. Friedrich Nietzsche doe common lying Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself. Friedrich Nietzsche creativity reality art Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander. Friedrich Nietzsche successful exercise thinking I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much. Friedrich Nietzsche issues names laughing I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil. Friedrich Nietzsche tyrants sacrifice evil Man is something that is to be surpassed. Friedrich Nietzsche men The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head. Friedrich Nietzsche paradox reading book And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning. Friedrich Nietzsche noon morning men I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer! Friedrich Nietzsche hereafter wish
