Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what? Friedrich Nietzsche yokefreedomeye The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. Friedrich Nietzsche inspirational-lovearrogantdemand In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche vainmountaintruth He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche motivationalinspirationallife Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them. Friedrich Nietzsche talkingmenlying The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche weaponswarenemy One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Nietzsche humorousprofounddeath ...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines. Friedrich Nietzsche wineheartsweet No artist tolerates reality. Friedrich Nietzsche beautifulinspirationallife He who obeys, does not listen to himself! Friedrich Nietzsche doe Become who you are! Friedrich Nietzsche who-you-are The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. Friedrich Nietzsche marriagebest-friendfriendship How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell. Friedrich Nietzsche skinsdarkmen In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. Friedrich Nietzsche new-testamentbookfacts Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases. Friedrich Nietzsche privilegeunderestimateresponsibility For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! Friedrich Nietzsche goalhumanityinspirational What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so. Friedrich Nietzsche doneself-esteemdream One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. Friedrich Nietzsche pollution-controlbecomingsea At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience. Friedrich Nietzsche heartintegritymean Great intellects are skeptical. Friedrich Nietzsche skepticalskepticismintellect
