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 Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation! Friedrich Nietzsche women real science Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them. Friedrich Nietzsche women imagination love A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace. Friedrich Nietzsche women bed sick I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else. Friedrich Nietzsche women heart believe What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew. Friedrich Nietzsche determined weight believe The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices. Friedrich Nietzsche women literature perfect We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value. Friedrich Nietzsche values I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride. Friedrich Nietzsche strength pride weak Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators! Friedrich Nietzsche creativity would-be nuts And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. Friedrich Nietzsche creativity evil firsts Love forgives the lover even his lust. Friedrich Nietzsche forgiving lust love In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings. Friedrich Nietzsche solitude break humans In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. Friedrich Nietzsche lonely loneliness men Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity opposites heart The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. Friedrich Nietzsche calm giving way We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. Friedrich Nietzsche gnats darkness order The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. Friedrich Nietzsche obscurity depth water We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us. Friedrich Nietzsche criticize criticism would-be We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche criticism men book The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. Friedrich Nietzsche wages should people
