Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. Friedrich Nietzsche good-night dream art Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me. Friedrich Nietzsche Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. Friedrich Nietzsche growing-up morning love Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry. Friedrich Nietzsche scream cry problem Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens. Friedrich Nietzsche individual tasks genius What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. Friedrich Nietzsche degrees two people This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy. Friedrich Nietzsche giving life thinking Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Friedrich Nietzsche photography life art When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work. Friedrich Nietzsche character men reality There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche wisdom inspiring philosophy If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed. Friedrich Nietzsche events soul self Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life. Friedrich Nietzsche amor cheer-up fate A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche spirit writing friendship ... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live. Friedrich Nietzsche saving healing art The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal". Friedrich Nietzsche justice-equality doctrine would-be The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks. Friedrich Nietzsche golden self blow The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. Friedrich Nietzsche envy ambition men Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be. Friedrich Nietzsche strong hope life What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses. Friedrich Nietzsche ass notes convincing In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies Friedrich Nietzsche mushrooms criticism wind