The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. Friedrich Nietzsche shepherdsdifferentwant Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. Friedrich Nietzsche existentialismfabulouswall Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard. Friedrich Nietzsche doneorderneeds The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion--- Friedrich Nietzsche wisest-manwould-bemen You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill. Friedrich Nietzsche passionlovefall But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them. Friedrich Nietzsche causalitydeedsdoe Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche waterprofoundbelieve One should never know too precisely whom one has married Friedrich Nietzsche cynicalweddingmarriage When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. Friedrich Nietzsche healthgoodnessmen For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's. Friedrich Nietzsche never-forgetpathlong The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments. Friedrich Nietzsche womenworkmean On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values! Friedrich Nietzsche wallrevengetime Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour. Friedrich Nietzsche medicinelyingthinking The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers! Friedrich Nietzsche sailingearthworld The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. Friedrich Nietzsche new-beginningsgameschildren It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. Friedrich Nietzsche leavingknowingopposites What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche reverberationageevil Only where there are graves are there resurrections. Friedrich Nietzsche resurrectiongraves We only hear questions that we are able to answer. Friedrich Nietzsche ableanswers Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche ravenssmellwisdom
