To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper. Friedrich Nietzsche pain humanity doubt That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors. Friedrich Nietzsche games play philosophy Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral. Friedrich Nietzsche morality despair self Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. Friedrich Nietzsche age religion jesus Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook. Friedrich Nietzsche hero doe tree It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful. Friedrich Nietzsche eye beautiful fall There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves? Friedrich Nietzsche fate sacrifice religious The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it. Friedrich Nietzsche slander criminals deeds Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. Friedrich Nietzsche kitchen cooking food The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. Friedrich Nietzsche troops reading dirty Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health. Friedrich Nietzsche carefree pathology delight How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? Friedrich Nietzsche dare spirit doe Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new. Friedrich Nietzsche hate mind firsts Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs. Friedrich Nietzsche wife husband men Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. Friedrich Nietzsche wisest-man age men Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Friedrich Nietzsche laughter morning believe In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard. Friedrich Nietzsche shadow success order The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. Friedrich Nietzsche males self clever The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. Friedrich Nietzsche faults becoming friendship At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back. Friedrich Nietzsche rams sheep men
