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 Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. Friedrich Nietzsche shells compassion should One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy. Friedrich Nietzsche euthanasia mercy hands The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist. Friedrich Nietzsche euthanasia mankind usual We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche long-ago passion should-have Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die. Friedrich Nietzsche independent substance long Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage. Friedrich Nietzsche birth next order A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death. Friedrich Nietzsche poison dream littles To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. Friedrich Nietzsche meaning-of-life goes-on profound It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche birth mistake hands The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us. Friedrich Nietzsche gains evil life Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups. Friedrich Nietzsche groups madness evil In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. Friedrich Nietzsche evil men hands There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche buddhism teaching art Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us. Friedrich Nietzsche burning humanity christian Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end. Friedrich Nietzsche principles ends christian One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching." Friedrich Nietzsche abuse trying wind Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption. Friedrich Nietzsche alcohol two mean Christianity is religion for the executioner. Friedrich Nietzsche executioners christianity Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today. Friedrich Nietzsche destiny law today This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust! Friedrich Nietzsche pain dust tree