Friedrich Nietzsche: Trending quotes (page 29)

“Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.”

“Those who deny chance. — 'No victor believes in chance.”

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us.”

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

“Become who you are!”

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

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

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

“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

“Art is the proper task of life.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”