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 One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk. Friedrich Nietzsche risk water men If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche alms pity long-ago On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. Friedrich Nietzsche valleys winter people To produce music is also in a sense to produce children. Friedrich Nietzsche produce music children A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power. Friedrich Nietzsche bed political sick As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified. Friedrich Nietzsche new-things novelty existence A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one. Friedrich Nietzsche coarse thanks knowing Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. Friedrich Nietzsche innocence pleasure want The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. Friedrich Nietzsche creation poet reality A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy. Friedrich Nietzsche remedy health littles Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself. Friedrich Nietzsche jealousy flames wind Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty! Friedrich Nietzsche possessed poverty littles It is the good war that hallows every cause. Friedrich Nietzsche good-war causes war He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success. Friedrich Nietzsche willpower action believe My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings. Friedrich Nietzsche wisdom clouds long Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. Friedrich Nietzsche charm women hate Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come. Friedrich Nietzsche precious-stones women world Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common. Friedrich Nietzsche groups use common Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche stupidity ends long To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength. Friedrich Nietzsche demand desire enemy
