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 To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. Friedrich Nietzsche morality ends steps Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. Friedrich Nietzsche polite company impossible There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. Friedrich Nietzsche interpretation moral There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. Friedrich Nietzsche malice kindness looks Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. Friedrich Nietzsche becoming god men Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. Friedrich Nietzsche favors party men The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book. Friedrich Nietzsche ambition doe book I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks. Friedrich Nietzsche real natural opposites The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. Friedrich Nietzsche familiarity superiors may i have never pondered over questions that are not questions. Friedrich Nietzsche The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other. Friedrich Nietzsche pirate today long As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. Friedrich Nietzsche disciple opponents firsts A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them. Friedrich Nietzsche detours six men I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable. Friedrich Nietzsche heart character book God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? Friedrich Nietzsche greatness spiritual blood They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche lightning fire mouths I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth! Friedrich Nietzsche amor want beautiful God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown. Friedrich Nietzsche god men religion From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written. Friedrich Nietzsche broken gold sea You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche mouths may lying
