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 The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. Friedrich Nietzsche poverty advantage noble When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty gratitude fame For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. Friedrich Nietzsche existence justified world Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. Friedrich Nietzsche typical return character The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace. Friedrich Nietzsche cat men sex Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers. Friedrich Nietzsche important men believe Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments. Friedrich Nietzsche weapons use men The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. Friedrich Nietzsche pain different hurt Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible. Friedrich Nietzsche horror wonder might Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine. Friedrich Nietzsche marriage husband spiritual Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. Friedrich Nietzsche marriage mother love The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. Friedrich Nietzsche infidelity quality marriage For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. Friedrich Nietzsche guilty-conscience marriage believe It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed. Friedrich Nietzsche cursed inhuman bless When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them. Friedrich Nietzsche intolerance trying people One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. Friedrich Nietzsche cleanliness rags dresses Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it. Friedrich Nietzsche deny greatness One is punished best for one's virtues. Friedrich Nietzsche punishment virtue One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche flattering flattery virtue To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down. Friedrich Nietzsche rope virtue fall
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