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 It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. Friedrich Nietzsche intense privilege greatness Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness intellectual mean All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. Friedrich Nietzsche disputes taste life-is A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. Friedrich Nietzsche opponents reading book No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche honey knowledge Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. Friedrich Nietzsche light suffering inspirational If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. Friedrich Nietzsche existence moments life Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. Friedrich Nietzsche loathing passion spiritual Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit. Friedrich Nietzsche thanks witty men When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent. Friedrich Nietzsche good-friend praise reality The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness. Friedrich Nietzsche inward tradition men It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche individual suffering facts Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. Friedrich Nietzsche conception individual opinion So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence. Friedrich Nietzsche apology philosophy hands The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. Friedrich Nietzsche humility peace fall For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt. Friedrich Nietzsche party silence way Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. Friedrich Nietzsche sensitive self men Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. Friedrich Nietzsche insult moral kind I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity loyalty giving Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren. Friedrich Nietzsche revolution may children
