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 We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics. Friedrich Nietzsche ignorance order science Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide! Friedrich Nietzsche scientist today science We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so. Friedrich Nietzsche fallen water people Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. Friedrich Nietzsche smell reading book The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. Friedrich Nietzsche carriages rhythm poet The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear. Friedrich Nietzsche perception littles men I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men. Friedrich Nietzsche struggle men mean Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. Friedrich Nietzsche ashes lunch house Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? Friedrich Nietzsche idleness psychology vices Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator. Friedrich Nietzsche fetters nevertheless self Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions. Friedrich Nietzsche sign-language moral emotion Almost two thousand years, and no new god! Friedrich Nietzsche political two years The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. Friedrich Nietzsche proof greatness culture As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. Friedrich Nietzsche ruins germany culture I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture. Friedrich Nietzsche french-culture europe believe Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards. Friedrich Nietzsche knowing-who-you-are drag want Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god. Friedrich Nietzsche higher flow men The hour-hand of life. Friedrich Nietzsche hours hands Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate. Friedrich Nietzsche ambrosia plates rich With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. Friedrich Nietzsche feelings comforting giving
