With this broken mind,
I reach for your touch.
In hopes of not dying,
Another death.
stay hungary stay foolish
Monday, March 10, 2008
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Its always better to keep quite and be though as a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubts. - Abraham Lincon.
Connect the two extremes and you reach the true center. - praveen
wake up, take up, make up - Pramila
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Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans - J.Lennon
Connect the two extremes and you reach the true center. - praveen
wake up, take up, make up - Pramila
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Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans - J.Lennon
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
"Amor Fati" Love your fate, which is in fact your life
You have your way. I have my way, as for the right way, the correct way, the only way, it does not exist.
I cannot believe in God, who just wants to be praised all the time.
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.”
“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not”
“That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much”
To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task”
“The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago”
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us”
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
"Love is not consolation. It is light.”
“He who has a why can endure any how”
I cannot believe in God, who just wants to be praised all the time.
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”
"I have done that," says my memory. "I cannot have done that" -- says my pride, and remains adamant. At last -- memory yields.”
“Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.”
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not”
“That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much”
To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task”
“The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago”
“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us”
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
"Love is not consolation. It is light.”
“He who has a why can endure any how”
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Fear is the mother of morality.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich 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 Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Fear is the mother of morality.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success has always been a great liar.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."
Friedrich Nietzsche
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was God's second mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are quite capable of entering into a friendship with a man, but to keep it going that takes a little physical antipathy as well.
Friedrich 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 Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
whenever I climb, I am followed by a dog called "Ego"
"And if you glaze for long into an abyss, the abyss also glazes back to you !"
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Man is the cruelest animal.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Only sick music makes money today.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Man is the cruelest animal.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Only sick music makes money today.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Monday, February 11, 2008
belivers to nonbelivers
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
A different Mathematican View!
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.
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