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 [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. Friedrich Nietzsche sublime development pride [Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. Friedrich Nietzsche language humanity feelings [Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully. Friedrich Nietzsche speak ifs [Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche logical grasping pride [Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence. Friedrich Nietzsche vision wise men Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic. Friedrich Nietzsche rope intuition pride Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God? Friedrich Nietzsche blunders men Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer. Friedrich Nietzsche show-me shows believe I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them. Friedrich Nietzsche greek doe men That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity hypocrite law I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite! Friedrich Nietzsche fate men memories Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so? Friedrich Nietzsche lovely desire looks This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd! Friedrich Nietzsche shepherds stronger each-day Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Friedrich Nietzsche century lasts taste Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture. Friedrich Nietzsche ruins germany culture The melancholia of everything completed! Friedrich Nietzsche To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness Friedrich Nietzsche spheres ambition soul Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity. Friedrich Nietzsche inspiration numbers hands One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives. Friedrich Nietzsche asks doe giving How much beer is in German intelligence? Friedrich Nietzsche beer
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