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 Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness) Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice self men What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force. Friedrich Nietzsche host long people Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing. Friedrich Nietzsche just-dance dancing dance The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche free-will vanity opponents And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. Friedrich Nietzsche abyss ifs bird I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me. Friedrich Nietzsche inspirational believe The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. Friedrich Nietzsche tragedy honor spiritual I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche dance god philosophy For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche intoxication drinking art What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. Friedrich Nietzsche lying How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. Friedrich Nietzsche real spirit bears A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. Friedrich Nietzsche ariadne men He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. Friedrich Nietzsche despise acceptance self The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals. Friedrich Nietzsche skills overcoming war Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense. Friedrich Nietzsche nature purpose law One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. Friedrich Nietzsche embarrassment involved All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness impossible firsts Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche drinking fear two Plato was a bore. Friedrich Nietzsche bores plato philosophy Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day. Friedrich Nietzsche idiot failing three
