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 Love is blind, friends close their eyes Friedrich Nietzsche love-is-blind eye love-is A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be. Friedrich Nietzsche sound tree men I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed. Friedrich Nietzsche god-is-dead teach men A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty. Friedrich Nietzsche climbing sleep two Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. Friedrich Nietzsche sick disease made In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search. Friedrich Nietzsche able order people Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness pain doubt The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. Friedrich Nietzsche earth christian feelings Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs. Friedrich Nietzsche men long mean It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor. Friedrich Nietzsche mediocrity and-love may The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche self men thinking There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic). Friedrich Nietzsche powerful shining men O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal! Friedrich Nietzsche doe The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws. Friedrich Nietzsche independence stronger law Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. Friedrich Nietzsche morality hatred christianity Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche nonsense transformation opposites He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat. Friedrich Nietzsche daybreak scapegoat deeds The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. Friedrich Nietzsche elements three joy For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again. Friedrich Nietzsche degrees mean needs Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of "greatness," on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity. Friedrich Nietzsche diversity greatness ideas
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