To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty. Friedrich Nietzsche increase modesty beauty Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. Friedrich Nietzsche stupid silly men Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. Friedrich Nietzsche stupid sleep war Art raises its head where creeds relax. Friedrich Nietzsche relax creeds art A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. Friedrich Nietzsche concern focus matter No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone. Friedrich Nietzsche streams bridges crosses From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it. Friedrich Nietzsche tears compassion sea That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth. Friedrich Nietzsche god men heaven The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche vanity taste running After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?. Friedrich Nietzsche ugly would-be beautiful No victor believes in chance. Friedrich Nietzsche chance motivational believe So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth? Friedrich Nietzsche truth long religion There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be. Friedrich Nietzsche objectivity eye knowing The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. Friedrich Nietzsche beyond-good-and-evil emotion overcoming Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. Friedrich Nietzsche stars knowing clever I am not a man, I am dynamite! Friedrich Nietzsche dynamite men To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche mediocrity mediocre form Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. Friedrich Nietzsche effort gains people Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world. Friedrich Nietzsche powerful hope men Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life! Friedrich Nietzsche thoughts-on-life highest life-is
