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 A married philosopher is a comic character. Friedrich Nietzsche philosopher married character O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing! Friedrich Nietzsche ticklish humanity men There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom? Friedrich Nietzsche body wisdom needs And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant. Friedrich Nietzsche breasts pleasant invention If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. Friedrich Nietzsche aesthetic indispensable art One who has a why can endure anyhow. Friedrich Nietzsche endure Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself. Friedrich Nietzsche conditions peaceful men It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. Friedrich Nietzsche duration he-man men Every word is a preconceived judgment. Friedrich Nietzsche judgment Certitude drives people mad. Friedrich Nietzsche certitude mad people Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. Friedrich Nietzsche ignorance revenge age Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief. Friedrich Nietzsche weakness belief steps I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars. Friedrich Nietzsche thrown i-can stars Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!" Friedrich Nietzsche right-time stranger too-late It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm. Friedrich Nietzsche perspective lust needs There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie. Friedrich Nietzsche hatred law lying Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. Friedrich Nietzsche raises mountain moving Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice. Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice powerful heart Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se. Friedrich Nietzsche pity pain littles The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours. Friedrich Nietzsche hours events
