It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy? Friedrich Nietzsche receiving being-thankful giving If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. Friedrich Nietzsche pardon-me pardon ifs We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. Friedrich Nietzsche inspiring inspirational love What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man! Friedrich Nietzsche vanity men world We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. Friedrich Nietzsche voice relationship ideas What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. Friedrich Nietzsche veins soul blood Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority. Friedrich Nietzsche authority example men It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche life-is-hard hard-times sweet It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life. Friedrich Nietzsche heartfelt essentials firsts Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche confidence communication philosophy Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights. Friedrich Nietzsche hate revenge rights The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. Friedrich Nietzsche passion sarcastic relationship Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche tongue emotional feelings There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius. Friedrich Nietzsche he-man genius men Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche gratitude cheer happiness Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Friedrich Nietzsche public-opinion substance culture The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. Friedrich Nietzsche successful revenge desire God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him. Friedrich Nietzsche knives science death The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires. Friedrich Nietzsche progress sacrifice greatness The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! Friedrich Nietzsche power world religion
