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 Many find their heart when they have lost their head. Friedrich Nietzsche heart lost To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. Friedrich Nietzsche ill-treatment self profound Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words. Friedrich Nietzsche disharmony harmony fragrance The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills. Friedrich Nietzsche suits style passion Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. Friedrich Nietzsche instinct power facts The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around. Friedrich Nietzsche tendencies resistance power The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche goal culture people Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas well as by the feeling of an incapacity for it (Min this respect a typical romantic!).... Fundamentally, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one. Friedrich Nietzsche strong atheist attitude Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. Friedrich Nietzsche errors truth way Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. Friedrich Nietzsche errors kind life-is Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride. Friedrich Nietzsche eye pride tails It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are. Friedrich Nietzsche meaningless followers Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him. Friedrich Nietzsche twelve church may One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more. Friedrich Nietzsche fighting hope winning One should only question gods where none but gods can reply. Friedrich Nietzsche should god But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism bears heart Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God. Friedrich Nietzsche godliness atheism The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise. Friedrich Nietzsche iron eye promise He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. Friedrich Nietzsche consideration virtue greatness Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad. Friedrich Nietzsche suffering doe attitude
