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 We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new. Friedrich Nietzsche play children thinking ...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it. Friedrich Nietzsche fashion revenge expectations There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.' Friedrich Nietzsche compassion animal men Master-morality and Slave-morality. Friedrich Nietzsche slave morality masters To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche beautiful mean At heart I am a warrior. Friedrich Nietzsche warrior heart war It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. Friedrich Nietzsche humanity beautiful war Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence. Friedrich Nietzsche europe war mean Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid). Friedrich Nietzsche renaissance contentment war The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan. Friedrich Nietzsche passion sleep war But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more. Friedrich Nietzsche soil evil war We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities. Friedrich Nietzsche nature flower believe The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. Friedrich Nietzsche suicidal suicide night The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche stronger ambition overcoming He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap Friedrich Nietzsche new-beginnings order rooms Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert. Friedrich Nietzsche intellectual cities believe We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish. Friedrich Nietzsche stupidity believe knowledge What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine. Friedrich Nietzsche machines today men A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. Friedrich Nietzsche self-love love-you love-is Thinking evil is making evil. Friedrich Nietzsche evil life thinking
