The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! Friedrich Nietzsche ifscleverbeautiful Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do. Friedrich Nietzsche examplewantadd Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche fools-daylifeart A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. Friedrich Nietzsche guessingshouldwant Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster. Friedrich Nietzsche statesmonsterslying How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. Friedrich Nietzsche freedominspirationalmen The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche lost-lovehatefriendship God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? Friedrich Nietzsche murderershadowcomfort All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. Friedrich Nietzsche punishmentfeelingspeople Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose! Friedrich Nietzsche good-thingswarfather Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good. Friedrich Nietzsche miscellaneousimprovementfeels There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things. Friedrich Nietzsche womenrealrelationship Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing. Friedrich Nietzsche growingprofoundneeds If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes. Friedrich Nietzsche virtueifssleep Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Friedrich Nietzsche affirmationblessingart At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation. Friedrich Nietzsche marriageconversationinteresting The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us Friedrich Nietzsche costpaylying if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search. Friedrich Nietzsche wishmindneeds The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. Friedrich Nietzsche lonelinesseducationculture Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time. Friedrich Nietzsche assumingpersonalitytime
