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 We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed. Friedrich Nietzsche tone opinion reason We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. Friedrich Nietzsche everyday matter want When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates. Friedrich Nietzsche giving-up self christian The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman. Friedrich Nietzsche feelings beautiful men Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity morality hardest Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind. Friedrich Nietzsche demand degrees quality Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon. Friedrich Nietzsche eye hands art It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished. Friedrich Nietzsche offenders genealogy imagine The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men. Friedrich Nietzsche majority rights men What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless. Friedrich Nietzsche demand overcoming doe I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food. Friedrich Nietzsche welcome chance pot Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew. Friedrich Nietzsche men culture enemy Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact. Friedrich Nietzsche inspiration real philosophy I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come. Friedrich Nietzsche benefits acting study No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men. Friedrich Nietzsche passion rights men If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price? Friedrich Nietzsche lowest disappointed ifs But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope! Friedrich Nietzsche hope-and-love soul hero In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically. Friedrich Nietzsche connections law numbers Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters? Friedrich Nietzsche degrees essentials shadow Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment. Friedrich Nietzsche draws moments responsibility
