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 I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? Friedrich Nietzsche serious play children I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance. Friedrich Nietzsche stills evil lying The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. Friedrich Nietzsche nonsense parody serious Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you. Friedrich Nietzsche debt example littles Man makes god in his own image. Friedrich Nietzsche men Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself. Friedrich Nietzsche esteem despise stills All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity. Friedrich Nietzsche falsehood idealism faces Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost. Friedrich Nietzsche ghost men life To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved. Friedrich Nietzsche ought return love Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche slowness essence knows Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up. Friedrich Nietzsche tourists views success If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip. Friedrich Nietzsche whips women forget I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche apes found men What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it. Friedrich Nietzsche senselessness indignant suffering For a significant man Friedrich Nietzsche iron laughter men Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it. Friedrich Nietzsche errors fighting evil About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously. Friedrich Nietzsche awake certain dream The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself! Friedrich Nietzsche complacency matter happiness This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy. Friedrich Nietzsche laughter laughing men Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve. Friedrich Nietzsche good-man joy men
