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The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Poet, Spectators
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.150, Penguin

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality, Self, Instinct
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
World, Justified, Eternity
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Sensual, Body

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Book, Ambition, Doe
"Twilight of the Idols".

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Four, Spinning

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Inward, Tradition

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Talking, Giving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.103, Courier Corporation

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Friedrich Nietzsche
Crazy, Mad, Tragedy

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Long, Stupidity

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mistake, Achievement, Mastery
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Enthusiasm, Inspired

The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dirt, Cleaning, Purification
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Followers, Might, Turns

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Laughing, Apes

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brotherly Love, Embrace, Brotherly

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Numbers, Goal
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lasts, Taste, Century
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.370, Modern Library

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Understanding, Inward, Guarantees

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Opposites, Natural

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Pirate, Today
"Human, All Too Human".

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Memories, Pride, Yield

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Men, Obedience
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.216, Modern Library

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtue, Arise, Vigorous
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Way, Calm

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