Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Friedrich Nietzsche lonely loneliness friendship Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off. Friedrich Nietzsche sleepy blessed fall I have forgotten my umbrella. Friedrich Nietzsche umbrella aphorism forgotten A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. Friedrich Nietzsche funny-life jokes feelings This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche stars light men Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. Friedrich Nietzsche beast rope men Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall. Friedrich Nietzsche pardon-me wall paint Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. Friedrich Nietzsche growth weak roots Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.) Friedrich Nietzsche guts done evil love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself. Friedrich Nietzsche passion europe men Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche yield pride memories A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. Friedrich Nietzsche obedience men believe Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'. Friedrich Nietzsche gratitude heart lying Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. Friedrich Nietzsche female language have-faith Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds. Friedrich Nietzsche ignorant doe want We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”? Friedrich Nietzsche men wrestling lying Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche rising-up men book What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche great-men apes men Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche cleanliness relation steps He who does not lie does not know what truth is. Friedrich Nietzsche truth-is doe lying
