Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary. Friedrich Nietzsche climbinghikingreal A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche faithwittyfunny The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. Friedrich Nietzsche lovesportsmen The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. Friedrich Nietzsche mindwantmemories That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force. Friedrich Nietzsche wisedoemean For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. Friedrich Nietzsche menmeanchildren Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. Friedrich Nietzsche madnessresultscertainty As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power. Friedrich Nietzsche luxurystruggledoe The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophybelievelying Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche truthlyingreligion One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. Friedrich Nietzsche mouthslittlesprofound To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together. Friedrich Nietzsche soultogetheraverage To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure. Friedrich Nietzsche joyhappinessway The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Friedrich Nietzsche dispositionannoyingdesire It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men. Friedrich Nietzsche durationtimemen Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. Friedrich Nietzsche understood What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. Friedrich Nietzsche new-beginningshumilitycharacter A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us. Friedrich Nietzsche coachinginspirationalscience Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. Friedrich Nietzsche declinegrowth Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche spiritualphilosophythinking
