There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy. Friedrich Nietzsche differences tree lying Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe. Friedrich Nietzsche friday self names Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today Friedrich Nietzsche destiny law exercise If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion Friedrich Nietzsche grateful fashion self The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. Friedrich Nietzsche conscious jobs children When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do. Friedrich Nietzsche romantic-love regret simple Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. Friedrich Nietzsche artist men art Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. Friedrich Nietzsche everyday-things common art Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk. Friedrich Nietzsche married marriage taken If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent. Friedrich Nietzsche marriage couple together A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown. Friedrich Nietzsche women cutting beautiful The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. Friedrich Nietzsche women men Human, all too human. Friedrich Nietzsche chaos humans It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly! Friedrich Nietzsche wisdom men people Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice seems men In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs Friedrich Nietzsche mountain legs long All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it. Friedrich Nietzsche passion annoyed past Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell. Friedrich Nietzsche hell found heaven Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word. Friedrich Nietzsche break-a-leg discovery men All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher alive hands