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 In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man. Friedrich Nietzsche artist mistake men Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome Friedrich Nietzsche overcoming men He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy. Friedrich Nietzsche ugly revenge sight There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them. Friedrich Nietzsche sunshine mean people A vocation is the backbone of life. Friedrich Nietzsche life-and-living vocation backbone The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. Friedrich Nietzsche defence term men Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous. Friedrich Nietzsche scoundrels ass men But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra. Friedrich Nietzsche infection body want You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake. Friedrich Nietzsche brake should teacher Faith is the path of least resistance. Friedrich Nietzsche path-of-least-resistance resistance path When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. Friedrich Nietzsche whips I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb. Friedrich Nietzsche i-love-him player fall Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so. Friedrich Nietzsche nature men science Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit. Friedrich Nietzsche self men science What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members. Friedrich Nietzsche individuality fundamentals evil Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience. Friedrich Nietzsche mimicking actors might Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident. Friedrich Nietzsche tasks simple men Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night. Friedrich Nietzsche laughing night father Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. Friedrich Nietzsche interpretation schemes philosophy Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them. Friedrich Nietzsche annoying should giving
