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I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Recovery, Light, Air
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Mountain, Legs
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Humility, Curls, Chance
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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?

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Halloween, Fighting, Monsters

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Husband, Men, Wife

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Reading, Smell
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

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Punishment, Festivals, Ancient
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arlie J. Hoover (1994). “Friedrich Nietzsche: His Life and Thought”, Praeger Publishers

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Vanity, Contempt, Behinds

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Principles, Charity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.72, Penguin UK

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Surprise, Tendencies, Ecstatic

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Thinking, Self
Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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
Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Christianity, Pity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.37, Friederich Nietzsche

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust, Inspire, Doubt

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Two, Legs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.40, Friedrich Nietzsche

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Break A Leg, Climbing, Long

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tasks, Hierarchy, Philosopher

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

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Men, Intellectual, Atheism

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

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Time, Past, Men

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

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Children, New Beginnings, Games

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Dying, Want

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Objectivity, Knowing
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Gay, Sarcasm, Air
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage, Hero, Eye

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Running, Long, Heaven
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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