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 How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle. Friedrich Nietzsche fitting reason world History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. Friedrich Nietzsche falsehood senses belief There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing. Friedrich Nietzsche my-birthday childhood choices It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have known how to sense the very stirring charm of such a mixture of the sublime, the sickly, and the childlike. Friedrich Nietzsche mean interesting jesus It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. Friedrich Nietzsche charm theory That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness. Friedrich Nietzsche politeness cheerful vices One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. Friedrich Nietzsche cheerful habit spirit Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him. Friedrich Nietzsche christian men believe When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God. Friedrich Nietzsche giving-up christian fall A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity. Friedrich Nietzsche strong pyramids civilization Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. Friedrich Nietzsche broken sake law The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche stupidity dog stones The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . . Friedrich Nietzsche causes feelings memories What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher terrible danger Morality in Europe today is herd-morality Friedrich Nietzsche morality europe today I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that. Friedrich Nietzsche generosity enough giving Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. Friedrich Nietzsche health eye men Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche crushed poison men The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction Friedrich Nietzsche pieces cutting promise Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking Friedrich Nietzsche home blue winter
