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 finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air. Friedrich Nietzsche artist air science Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. Friedrich Nietzsche cost desire science We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us! Friedrich Nietzsche dying want death A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. Friedrich Nietzsche opponents spirit book What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books? Friedrich Nietzsche transport doe book A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays. Friedrich Nietzsche writing long book Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time. Friedrich Nietzsche born ink book What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason. Friedrich Nietzsche heart animal men The English are a nation of consummate cant. Friedrich Nietzsche cant nations england Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit. Friedrich Nietzsche soul dream long Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton. Friedrich Nietzsche experience littles thinking Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals. Friedrich Nietzsche encounters important people All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. Friedrich Nietzsche sunshine creativity rain What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread. Friedrich Nietzsche birth creativity pregnancy Pain makes hens and poets cackle. Friedrich Nietzsche hens creativity pain As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal. Friedrich Nietzsche artist dream men Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. Friedrich Nietzsche artist play men One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol. Friedrich Nietzsche proud worship idols Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him. Friedrich Nietzsche normal light love In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light. Friedrich Nietzsche motherly light love