To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. Friedrich Nietzsche shepherds different want Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. Friedrich Nietzsche existentialism fabulous wall Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard. Friedrich Nietzsche done order needs The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion--- Friedrich Nietzsche wisest-man would-be men You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill. Friedrich Nietzsche passion love fall But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them. Friedrich Nietzsche causality deeds doe Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche water profound believe One should never know too precisely whom one has married Friedrich Nietzsche cynical wedding marriage When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly. Friedrich Nietzsche health goodness men For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's. Friedrich Nietzsche never-forget path long The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments. Friedrich Nietzsche women work mean On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values! Friedrich Nietzsche wall revenge time Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour. Friedrich Nietzsche medicine lying thinking The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers! Friedrich Nietzsche sailing earth world The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes. Friedrich Nietzsche new-beginnings games children It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. Friedrich Nietzsche leaving knowing opposites What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche reverberation age evil Only where there are graves are there resurrections. Friedrich Nietzsche resurrection graves We only hear questions that we are able to answer. Friedrich Nietzsche able answers Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche ravens smell wisdom
