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 must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. Friedrich Nietzsche practice opportunity people The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche quality men order It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind! Friedrich Nietzsche existence opinion men Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights. Friedrich Nietzsche crazy rights christian No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. Friedrich Nietzsche math may fiction Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. Friedrich Nietzsche progress men science Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche laughter inspirational men I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you. Friedrich Nietzsche because-i-can deceived believe He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it. Friedrich Nietzsche ideals One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? Friedrich Nietzsche ill persons By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche enjoy passion mean That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche echoes age evil The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer. Friedrich Nietzsche criminals artist beautiful It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime. Friedrich Nietzsche puritan moral spirit Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness. Friedrich Nietzsche mask hatred profound Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare. Friedrich Nietzsche novices immature long Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir. Friedrich Nietzsche confession kind philosophy Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. Friedrich Nietzsche transformation mankind politics Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself. Friedrich Nietzsche matter names today Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher philosophy science
