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 If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads! Friedrich Nietzsche legs use people The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. Friedrich Nietzsche tree giving people Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy Friedrich Nietzsche riddle solutions pregnancy When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" Friedrich Nietzsche saint heart forests The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. Friedrich Nietzsche cynical pain causes Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche eight mistake fall The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it. Friedrich Nietzsche vision powerful reality And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams. Friedrich Nietzsche dream reality art Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. Friedrich Nietzsche questionable contemplation thinking THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds. Friedrich Nietzsche words-of-wisdom arrows mind THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic? Friedrich Nietzsche touching giving men In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest. Friedrich Nietzsche religious men religion The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it. Friedrich Nietzsche reflection men lying The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment! Friedrich Nietzsche men people religion In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that! Friedrich Nietzsche hatred intellectual people There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God. Friedrich Nietzsche lakes men religion Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own. Friedrich Nietzsche ninety-nine prayer names If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love. Friedrich Nietzsche judging justice religion Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect. Friedrich Nietzsche religious war religion Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too. Friedrich Nietzsche blasphemy died religion
