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 An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises. Friedrich Nietzsche choices artist way How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher philosophy world The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. Friedrich Nietzsche running heaven long Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped? Friedrich Nietzsche use age thinking What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche feelings men war The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. Friedrich Nietzsche casts snakes skins No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery. Friedrich Nietzsche mysterious years ideas Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation. Friedrich Nietzsche girl people interesting Art is the great stimulus to life. Friedrich Nietzsche stimulus art-is art Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation. Friedrich Nietzsche interpretation facts If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion. Friedrich Nietzsche lazy men mean Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! Friedrich Nietzsche ugly wells sublime We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. Friedrich Nietzsche opinion inspirational Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche pathetic greatness attitude Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality. Friedrich Nietzsche women artist science The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche spirituality criminal-mind philosophical A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. Friedrich Nietzsche courage heart needs He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche halloween fighting monsters He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche moving-on dance inspirational Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Friedrich Nietzsche leadership inspirational funny