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 Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies. Friedrich Nietzsche women happiness lying Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again. Friedrich Nietzsche wish desire happiness This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards. Friedrich Nietzsche warrior courage beautiful The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche eye hero courage Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is. Friedrich Nietzsche brave courage people It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. Friedrich Nietzsche wickedness indulge-in courage A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche friends friendship enemy We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche friends feelings friendship With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. Friedrich Nietzsche sturdy space weight Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality. Friedrich Nietzsche tragic sensuality tragedy Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies? Friedrich Nietzsche vanity tragedy mother A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical break-out lying The philosopher caught in the nets of language. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher philosophical language The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language. Friedrich Nietzsche activity language spiritual Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards. Friedrich Nietzsche believe history looks We are all afraid of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche truth Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again? Friedrich Nietzsche truth animal men It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring. Friedrich Nietzsche dangerous boring truth Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche truth revenge children Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just. Friedrich Nietzsche pure truth justice