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The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Doe, Reason Why

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Men, Ideas

I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Couple, Hate, Ocean

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fun, Philosophical, Serious

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sublime, Ugly, Wells
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Heart, Men
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Daughter, Mother, Father
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.111, Courier Corporation

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Profound, Might
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.198, Vintage

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, People, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.102, Vintage

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Light, Quality, Noble

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fiction, Answers, World
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.237, Modern Library

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Moments, Existence
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None”, p.3, Algora Publishing

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Friends, Feelings

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Sleep, Passion

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, Dancing, Just Dance

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Envy, Lucky

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Nature, Truth
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Integrity, Heart, Mean
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, Wall, Revenge

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Food, Cooking, Kitchen
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.354, Modern Library

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Joy, Three, Elements
"The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 801, Notebook W II 1. KGW VIII, 2.57-8, KSA 12.393-4, Fall 1888.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemy, Alive, Sake
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny, Faces, Our Destiny

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Noble, Poverty, Advantage

The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Second Best, Born, Best Things
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music”, p.48, Penguin UK

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