It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger. Friedrich Nietzsche young memories I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think! Friedrich Nietzsche coarse arrogant thinking A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr. Friedrich Nietzsche martyr disciple suffering What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers. Friedrich Nietzsche names people way A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. Friedrich Nietzsche principles character men Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. Friedrich Nietzsche fate bridges men Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned. Friedrich Nietzsche dancing way thinking To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel. Friedrich Nietzsche opponents war firsts There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. Friedrich Nietzsche secrecy together lying What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are. Friedrich Nietzsche illusion forgotten I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope. Friedrich Nietzsche hope courage time Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them. Friedrich Nietzsche honesty laziness men The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start. Friedrich Nietzsche perspective expectations love We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature. Friedrich Nietzsche mirrors should god In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. Friedrich Nietzsche blame praise How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force! Friedrich Nietzsche war long mean The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell Friedrich Nietzsche hell sick world Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche determined experience character The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous. Friedrich Nietzsche style winning beauty Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. Friedrich Nietzsche fate music-is errors
