To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory! Friedrich Nietzsche bows arrows victory I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Friedrich Nietzsche stills thinking Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. Friedrich Nietzsche gestures mankind reason One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. Friedrich Nietzsche hate pride self-esteem The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life. Friedrich Nietzsche warrior acceptance mean To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death. Friedrich Nietzsche suicide death children Only sick music makes money today. Friedrich Nietzsche music sick money You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician. Friedrich Nietzsche physicians doctors born At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them. Friedrich Nietzsche endure weakness On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams. Friedrich Nietzsche expectations dream morning Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out? Friedrich Nietzsche tired light blow Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. Friedrich Nietzsche illusion forgotten Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role. Friedrich Nietzsche roles genius men If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed . Friedrich Nietzsche destroyed temples ifs Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. Friedrich Nietzsche founders philosophical existential That which does not destroy, strengthens. Friedrich Nietzsche resilience doe If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved Friedrich Nietzsche fate sacrifice thinking one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. Friedrich Nietzsche wish writing life Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself. Friedrich Nietzsche treasure drug christian Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another. Friedrich Nietzsche objectivity justice