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 order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city. Friedrich Nietzsche distance cities order I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing! Friedrich Nietzsche advice giving mean For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds. Friedrich Nietzsche shadow evil clouds This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. Friedrich Nietzsche demand facts firsts Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid. Friedrich Nietzsche new-experiences stupid men Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men! Friedrich Nietzsche good-man law men ... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered. Friedrich Nietzsche wicked littles facts Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond. Friedrich Nietzsche love The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men. Friedrich Nietzsche regard self-worth men It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. Friedrich Nietzsche worst language book In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty. Friedrich Nietzsche beautiful beauty believe When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. Friedrich Nietzsche shame gratitude grateful What the father kept silent the son speaks out. Friedrich Nietzsche speaks-out father son Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious! Friedrich Nietzsche reading morning book I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. Friedrich Nietzsche fashion animal men To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general. Friedrich Nietzsche blessing play men In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art. Friedrich Nietzsche strong reflection art We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment. Friedrich Nietzsche apology blessed book The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. Friedrich Nietzsche health hate inspirational Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche spirit writing blood
