Friedrich Nietzche

He who dwelleth among the good, him teacheth pity to lie. Pity breedeth bad air for all free souls. For the stupidity of the good is unfathomable.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

The arrogant man - that is to say, he who desires to appear more than he is or passes for - always miscalculates.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

There is nothing more necessary than truth, in comparison with it, everything else has only secondary value.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

To have a friend one must be willing to wage war for him and to wage war one must be capable of being an enemy.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

The most dangerous follower is he whose defection would destroy the whole party.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Without music, life would be a mistake.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

I would only believe in a God who knows how to dance.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

The doer alone learneth.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

The true world we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one? No! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Scholars ultimately lose entirely their capacity to think for themselves.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

In all talk there is a grain of contempt.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

I do not like it' - Why? - 'I am not up to it'. -Has anyone ever answered like that?

[Friedrich Nietzche @keepurearsup]

The arrogant man - that is to say, he who desires to appear more than he is or passes for - always miscalculates.