Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health? Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Friedrich Nietzsche dad funny father When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. Friedrich Nietzsche pockets hundred time Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. Friedrich Nietzsche martial-arts talent fighting Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary. Friedrich Nietzsche iron courses men All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. Friedrich Nietzsche overcoming want men The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. Friedrich Nietzsche strong opposites beautiful I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! Friedrich Nietzsche laughter believe fall Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. Friedrich Nietzsche swamps shallow sea Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. Friedrich Nietzsche tablets harvest writing Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? Friedrich Nietzsche errors animal men You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. Friedrich Nietzsche body doe believe In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. Friedrich Nietzsche quality different revenge In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being. Friedrich Nietzsche eye plato reality The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche betrayal jealousy creativity The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. Friedrich Nietzsche age war history Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows. Friedrich Nietzsche freedom heart believe Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky. Friedrich Nietzsche eye expression lying We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. Friedrich Nietzsche thinness caution precaution Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity. Friedrich Nietzsche pity danger lying We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses. Friedrich Nietzsche courtesy offense people
