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 We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche frankness honesty There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term. Friedrich Nietzsche weakness waiting pregnancy Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. Friedrich Nietzsche degrees assuming power He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case. Friedrich Nietzsche slave tradition sacrifice Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. Friedrich Nietzsche importance progress Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion. Friedrich Nietzsche illusion truth-is forgotten A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions. Friedrich Nietzsche opinion busy men The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. Friedrich Nietzsche giving world art I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche one-thing writing The pure soul is a pure lie. Friedrich Nietzsche pure-soul soul lying No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access. Friedrich Nietzsche ears men book Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. Friedrich Nietzsche memories people thinking 'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. Friedrich Nietzsche solitude speak may In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Friedrich Nietzsche beast grows solitude One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you. Friedrich Nietzsche solitude running men There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration. Friedrich Nietzsche choices lust self He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! Friedrich Nietzsche poverty blessed littles The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight. Friedrich Nietzsche fighting church jesus In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless. Friedrich Nietzsche human-condition judgment age Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! Friedrich Nietzsche heaven-and-earth earth heaven
