Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you. Friedrich Nietzsche hatestrongenough When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began. Friedrich Nietzsche experiencehouseway The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. Friedrich Nietzsche healthysickstrong Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man? Friedrich Nietzsche atheistmotivationalinspirational Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions. Friedrich Nietzsche freedompoliticsenemy God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! Friedrich Nietzsche religiousanswersthinking These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Friedrich Nietzsche selfishnessimportanttaken When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. Friedrich Nietzsche nuancegainsart Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin. Friedrich Nietzsche vanitypassionsight I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers. Friedrich Nietzsche Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. Friedrich Nietzsche giving-upstrengthmotivational What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do? Friedrich Nietzsche marriageunderstandinglove The real world is much smaller than the imaginary Friedrich Nietzsche real-worldrealworld Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. Friedrich Nietzsche scienceideasthinking Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness. Friedrich Nietzsche flyinglightwant The lie is a condition of life. Friedrich Nietzsche conditionslifelying The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. Friedrich Nietzsche emotionintellectualreason He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness. Friedrich Nietzsche eyeheartlong If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion. Friedrich Nietzsche fashionbookreligion Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? Friedrich Nietzsche painsufferingdoe
