Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Friedrich Nietzsche existentialism opposites life Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price. Friedrich Nietzsche men mean ideas In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche intelligence order knowledge A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power. Friedrich Nietzsche will-power strength life-is Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical mean past For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism intellectual men Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death! Friedrich Nietzsche fear exercise men Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality? Friedrich Nietzsche lazy laziness mean Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise. Friedrich Nietzsche expertise smooth There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. Friedrich Nietzsche pain suffering men In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss. Friedrich Nietzsche laughter evil together Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Friedrich Nietzsche bait swallowing men The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation. Friedrich Nietzsche unendurable habit would-be One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. Friedrich Nietzsche contradiction rich cost As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche stars eye long The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day. Friedrich Nietzsche atheist goal men At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophical atheist spiritual That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. Friedrich Nietzsche dishonesty character lying You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness pain suffering A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt. Friedrich Nietzsche teeth stupid doe
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