Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 24)

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“Every one who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

“The pure soul is a pure lie.”

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.”

“A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.”

“He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

“The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.”

“Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

“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'.”

“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

“The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”