Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 2

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light-what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Works, first and foremost! That is to say, doing, doing, doing! The 'faith' that goes with it will soon put in an appearance - you can be sure of that!

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

Love, too, has to be learned.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

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

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been-the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.