Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels? Friedrich Nietzsche thieves lovers done Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back. Friedrich Nietzsche rags women contentment How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity. Friedrich Nietzsche luxury self order Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off. Friedrich Nietzsche cutting truth knowledge The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable. Friedrich Nietzsche truth reality knowledge We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error. Friedrich Nietzsche errors truth knowledge Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself. Friedrich Nietzsche truth struggle knowledge When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass. Friedrich Nietzsche crowds towns men Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun. Friedrich Nietzsche hateful ego men He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. Friedrich Nietzsche nests should bird To the mean all becomes mean. Friedrich Nietzsche pettiness mean A married philosopher belongs to comedy. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher married comedy Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance. Friedrich Nietzsche distance blessed want 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. Friedrich Nietzsche aphorism teeth century Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. Friedrich Nietzsche solitude religious religion The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. Friedrich Nietzsche tasks rights men Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily. Friedrich Nietzsche silent respect speak The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. Friedrich Nietzsche refinement sickness sick Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false. Friedrich Nietzsche light men lying In the dark, time feels different than when it is light. Friedrich Nietzsche light dark time
