People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved. Friedrich Nietzsche our-actions karma claims Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. Friedrich Nietzsche barbarism pieces god-love Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience. Friedrich Nietzsche thirds hands looks All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. Friedrich Nietzsche real may life Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body. Friedrich Nietzsche body soul Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again. Friedrich Nietzsche eternal has-beens sea If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity. Friedrich Nietzsche mother names home Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. Friedrich Nietzsche heard men death One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it. Friedrich Nietzsche odysseus blessing death The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. Friedrich Nietzsche breasts wells earth Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. Friedrich Nietzsche equality liberty sleep The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. Friedrich Nietzsche irony opinion two Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. Friedrich Nietzsche experience use men One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. Friedrich Nietzsche taste want long The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise. Friedrich Nietzsche followers eye men People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful. Friedrich Nietzsche morrow future people Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche ideals faults eye The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out. Friedrich Nietzsche callous heart hands The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness genius deeds It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other. Friedrich Nietzsche solidarity affinity soul
