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 Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added). Friedrich Nietzsche vanity pain light Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you. Friedrich Nietzsche goodness evil want And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire. Friedrich Nietzsche fire doe men People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example. Friedrich Nietzsche insecure missing people A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important. Friedrich Nietzsche arrogance important people The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us. Friedrich Nietzsche merit arrogance people There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche greatness bridges people In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe. Friedrich Nietzsche writing order book Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals. Friedrich Nietzsche glowing coal misunderstood "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it. Friedrich Nietzsche ego believe art What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they. Friedrich Nietzsche vain ends spirit He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. Friedrich Nietzsche stink century spirit Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached. Friedrich Nietzsche voice earth "What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching." Friedrich Nietzsche touching girl brave I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going. Friedrich Nietzsche golden i-love-him deeds Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby! Friedrich Nietzsche triumph war enemy What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out. Friedrich Nietzsche style sky europe Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself. Friedrich Nietzsche taken animal men We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. Friedrich Nietzsche discernment advantage may What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche hours virtue reason
