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 Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?' Friedrich Nietzsche answers fiction world It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary. Friedrich Nietzsche soul mind europe Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. Friedrich Nietzsche criteria theologian atheism The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it. Friedrich Nietzsche choices challenges men 'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say. Friedrich Nietzsche luther wise men The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. Friedrich Nietzsche spectators poet spirit The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women! Friedrich Nietzsche robust given sky One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep. Friedrich Nietzsche maids bears sleep What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son. Friedrich Nietzsche father lying son Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity. Friedrich Nietzsche pity disease christian However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself. Friedrich Nietzsche christian sound may His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. Friedrich Nietzsche instinct self reality Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche eye beautiful giving Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. Friedrich Nietzsche justified eternity world Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans. Friedrich Nietzsche style kind long It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. Friedrich Nietzsche invention powerful art The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair. Friedrich Nietzsche coward mean enemy The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature. Friedrich Nietzsche creator command conviction In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man. Friedrich Nietzsche finance men world The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick. Friedrich Nietzsche criminals sick strong
