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 I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods. Friedrich Nietzsche creativity creative desire The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'. Friedrich Nietzsche recovery christian men Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come. Friedrich Nietzsche neighbor he-man men Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside Friedrich Nietzsche soul evil How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment. Friedrich Nietzsche susceptible experiments embodiment The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. Friedrich Nietzsche expression would-be sides Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Friedrich Nietzsche fit unique mean We are terrified by the idea of being terrified. Friedrich Nietzsche terrified ideas I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No. Friedrich Nietzsche unconditional dangerous spirit I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? Friedrich Nietzsche done nihilism men Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you! Friedrich Nietzsche chance taste trying It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche difficult silence people ...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone. Friedrich Nietzsche clearness speak heard Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. Friedrich Nietzsche knows book In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. Friedrich Nietzsche should-have heart enemy One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape. Friedrich Nietzsche dancer fall needs We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin. Friedrich Nietzsche superstitions sin belief It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven! Friedrich Nietzsche cry sin heaven I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. Friedrich Nietzsche shadow caring soul Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts. Friedrich Nietzsche effort artist men
