To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. Friedrich Nietzsche bad-reputation reputation easier If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts Friedrich Nietzsche kissing hurt train We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche poet Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. Friedrich Nietzsche noble essence soul He who humbles himself wants to be exalted. Friedrich Nietzsche exalted humility want We are always in our own company. Friedrich Nietzsche company Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns. Friedrich Nietzsche herds individuality doubt The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. Friedrich Nietzsche badass powerful strong The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life. Friedrich Nietzsche real heart beautiful Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche my-thoughts spokes behinds If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old? Friedrich Nietzsche considering enjoy talking Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"! Friedrich Nietzsche this-life earth may I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them! Friedrich Nietzsche envy hatred heart The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. Friedrich Nietzsche fathom women depth The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate. Friedrich Nietzsche fate failure men To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished. Friedrich Nietzsche eye might profound In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. Friedrich Nietzsche impulse matter knowledge What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind? Friedrich Nietzsche words-of-wisdom vanity ambition That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman. Friedrich Nietzsche eye revenge men Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease. Friedrich Nietzsche perspective law moving
