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 Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche contempt-you hate enemy The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings. Friedrich Nietzsche barbarians physical-strength noble Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores! Friedrich Nietzsche towns should people I am almost equal to a shadow. Friedrich Nietzsche equal shadow Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. Friedrich Nietzsche strive doe men The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things. Friedrich Nietzsche intimate men book All truths are bloody truths to me. Friedrich Nietzsche bloody The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie Friedrich Nietzsche church christian lying It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know. Friedrich Nietzsche germs men firsts But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more". Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice return order Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs! Friedrich Nietzsche crumbs tragedy masters Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight. Friedrich Nietzsche doctrine delight creating The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. Friedrich Nietzsche alms cowardice giver The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type. Friedrich Nietzsche type The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals. Friedrich Nietzsche apes speak found Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together. Friedrich Nietzsche sarcasm gay air He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.) Friedrich Nietzsche plant principles believe A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent. Friedrich Nietzsche coward play men Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche unhappy long way Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do. Friedrich Nietzsche drunk ideas fall
