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 Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. Friedrich Nietzsche fate matter evil Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. Friedrich Nietzsche goal doe happiness Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more. Friedrich Nietzsche together happiness Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together! Friedrich Nietzsche growing-up brother happiness To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche fighting happiness long When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. Friedrich Nietzsche ships mean moving You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness opportunity character Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. Friedrich Nietzsche women cat peace Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night. Friedrich Nietzsche suicide night thinking The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive. Friedrich Nietzsche reputation alive suicide "State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life." Friedrich Nietzsche wicked poison suicide Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra. Friedrich Nietzsche dream teacher lying Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. Friedrich Nietzsche clarity important matter He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike. Friedrich Nietzsche atheist spiritual children What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest! Friedrich Nietzsche atheist christian thinking Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers? Friedrich Nietzsche science believe hands The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. Friedrich Nietzsche anarchist christian common I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man. Friedrich Nietzsche dark clouds men Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them Friedrich Nietzsche waiting mean lying Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed? Friedrich Nietzsche lure god-exists religion
