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 The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche purification cleaning dirt If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will. Friedrich Nietzsche winning opportunity giving Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence. Friedrich Nietzsche moments sake bears Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods. Friedrich Nietzsche godly men believe The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him. Friedrich Nietzsche indulgence indulge willing Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements. Friedrich Nietzsche body evil men We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn? Friedrich Nietzsche wicked goodness done Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers. Friedrich Nietzsche turns followers might Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little. Friedrich Nietzsche too-much goes-on littles What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. Friedrich Nietzsche apes laughing men We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength. Friedrich Nietzsche defeat strength hurt Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master. Friedrich Nietzsche loyal done teacher There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche applause noise giving I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer? Friedrich Nietzsche stills shows art Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it. Friedrich Nietzsche climate choices men Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it. Friedrich Nietzsche brotherly brotherly-love embrace Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good. Friedrich Nietzsche good-man be-good men Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises. Friedrich Nietzsche odds long fall The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built. Friedrich Nietzsche scaffolding built house There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all. Friedrich Nietzsche horse shadow order
