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 Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity! Friedrich Nietzsche truth names believe Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life. Friedrich Nietzsche confused freedom truth Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes! Friedrich Nietzsche eye moon truth What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical truth men The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. Friedrich Nietzsche moral truth knowledge The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity! Friedrich Nietzsche vulgarity truth knowledge On every parable you ride to every truth. Friedrich Nietzsche parables truth In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical philosophy school At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical philosophy believe This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical artist ideas Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher philosophical bears When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline. Friedrich Nietzsche soul doe ideas We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world. Friedrich Nietzsche purpose way world What is life? A continuous praise and blame. Friedrich Nietzsche blame praise life Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master. Friedrich Nietzsche masters power life Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that? Friedrich Nietzsche cutting spirit life Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious. Friedrich Nietzsche shame intimacy men However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it. Friedrich Nietzsche horizon four people Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period. Friedrich Nietzsche honest periods want Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand. Friedrich Nietzsche would-be book hands
