No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go. Friedrich Nietzsche luxurymoneyrelationship What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. Friedrich Nietzsche heroicsufferinghope Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. Friedrich Nietzsche broken-heartlovemen The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation. Friedrich Nietzsche self-confidencepridechristian I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer. Friedrich Nietzsche wishbeautifulwar The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Nietzsche liarsinspirationallying The free man is a warrior. Friedrich Nietzsche warriorindependentmen Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. Friedrich Nietzsche impossibleforget I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over. Friedrich Nietzsche know-howcrossesknows People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings. Friedrich Nietzsche ordinarymenpeople Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful. Friedrich Nietzsche pridelossbeautiful All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nietzsche politicalpowerreality It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. Friedrich Nietzsche nobilityphilosophicalnoble Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance. Friedrich Nietzsche masteryperformancesmistake Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster. Friedrich Nietzsche teachfasterfall Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. Friedrich Nietzsche giving-lovewallbrother Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. Friedrich Nietzsche fruittreethinking Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche musicmistakelife Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale. Friedrich Nietzsche balancesidesfriendship If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. Friedrich Nietzsche wishfeelingsmen
