Quotes about Friedrich

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs — he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance — one cannot fly into flying.
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations w — Friedrich Nietzsche
To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way — and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves — and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Man does not strive for happiness — only the Englishman does that.
one does not only wish to be understood when one writes — one wishes just as surely not to be understood.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions — they cease to be mind.
the voice of beauty speaks softly — it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls
[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gotti — Gerhard Falk, American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community
Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. Wh — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he ha — Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at t — and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche
These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put on an appearance th — Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
That the other suffers has to be learned — and it can never be learned fully.
To live is to suffer — to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.