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 At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me. Friedrich Nietzsche dance light Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact. Friedrich Nietzsche adversity human-nature facts What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim. Friedrich Nietzsche vision genius mean Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche vision men life You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking Friedrich Nietzsche esteem self-esteem thinking It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche privilege independent strong One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence. Friedrich Nietzsche independence independent tests Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves Friedrich Nietzsche independent over-you self He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. Friedrich Nietzsche independent goal long A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. Friedrich Nietzsche independent strong lying These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason? Friedrich Nietzsche spinning independent four Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. Friedrich Nietzsche ruling yoke independent Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what? Friedrich Nietzsche independent eye doe The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude. Friedrich Nietzsche independent overcoming men One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom." Friedrich Nietzsche live-for-the-day independent Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it. Friedrich Nietzsche strong perfect science If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. Friedrich Nietzsche endure atheist ifs Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed. Friedrich Nietzsche doubt attitude believe Hold a true friend with both your hands. Friedrich Nietzsche true-friend best-friend friendship The last Christian died on a cross. Friedrich Nietzsche lasts atheist christian
