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What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Dew, Common
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody".

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Together, Secrecy

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Artist, Criminals
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Century, Stink
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Two, Opinion, Irony
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
People, Horizon, Four

What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Talent, Hiding, Betray

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Past, Dust, Littles

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Hints, Welcome

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Men, Iron

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Glasses, People, Half

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Party, Sound, Doe

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Camels, Three
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Experience, Use
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Passion, Men, Rights
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Freedom, Confused

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Eternity, Rhyme

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Life, Cutting, Spirit
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.90, Oxford University Press

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wine, Fire, Giving

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Perspective, House

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Weight, Determined
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Spirit, Life Is

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Names, House, Curiosity
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Prejudice, Development
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Clouds, Evil, Shadow

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