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At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him,

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dream, Stars, Heart
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.106, U of Nebraska Press

A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Men, Light
"The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70), 1888.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Choices, Way

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rich, Ambrosia, Plates

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Opposites, Existentialism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.250, Penguin UK

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Criminals, Deeds, Slander

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Mean, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Despise
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

The doer alone learneth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Education, Doers
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1908). “Thus Spake Zarathustra, a Book for All and None”

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Courtesy, Offense

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother, Jealous, Son

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Disappointed, Lowest, Ifs
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.215, Cambridge University Press

Sleep is no mean art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Mean, Sleep

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Hope

My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Clouds, Long
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.248, Lulu Press, Inc

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Sleep, People

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration, Men, Feelings

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Heart, Goal
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.36, Booklassic

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Towns, Should

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heaven, Charity, Earth

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Swimming, Air, Water

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Want, Doe, Dangerous
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Stupid, Sleep

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Devil, Sexuality, Swine

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, History, Wish
"Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1".

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