Quotes of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - somelinesforyou

“ The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your giftgiving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers — at bottom, merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money — admiration. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of every class: they can find almost everything, have almost everything, provided they bring with them the right kind of money — admiration. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ These small things — nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness — are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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