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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny, Marriage, Gone

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Men, Feelings
"The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 804 (Notebook W II 2. Fall 1887, KGW VIII, 2.220-1, KSA 12.554-5), 1888.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Race, Earth

In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power—until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is—art.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Strong, Reflection
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Use, Legs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.296, Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Character, Dishonesty
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Writing, Blood
"Thus Spake Zarathustra".

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Gloves, Filth

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust, Opposites, Evil

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Friedrich Nietzsche
Power, Goal, Suffering

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Snakes, Skins, Casts

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Intuition, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wall, Fear, Roots
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Humanity, Burning
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.50, e-artnow

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Doe, Virtue
"Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist".

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Past, Annoyed
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Soul
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.47, Vintage

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Change, Dream, Long

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Rights, Tasks
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2016). “The Will to Power, Book I to IV: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values (Complete)”, p.576, Library of Alexandria

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strength, Life Is, Will Power

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage, Spiritual, Husband

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sea, Swamps, Shallow

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Want
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.121, Penguin

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Revenge, Mean
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.233, Vintage

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