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Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Music, Air, Voice

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Math, Fiction, May

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Friedrich Nietzsche
England, Nations, Cant

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Cities, People

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid, Teeth, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Opponents, Tendencies, Caricatures
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Evil, Language
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughtful, Thinking

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Earth, Preacher
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.179, e-artnow

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Destiny, Two
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Bridges, Goal

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Self, Ears
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.37, e-artnow

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaks Out, Names, Evil
Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Enemy, Triumph
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.181, e-artnow

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Europe, Sky, Style
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.591, e-artnow

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Objectivity, Justice
Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.

Friedrich Nietzsche
I Love Him, Bridges, Spirit
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.22, e-artnow

Existence begins in every instant.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence, Instant

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Keys, Self
Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Sight, Hatred
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.181, e-artnow

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Suicide, Suicidal, Night

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Communication, Thinking, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.219, Modern Library

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Doctrine, Born
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.51, e-artnow

I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Names, Issues, Laughing
"Idea of Anti-Semitism Filled Nietzsche With Ire and Melancholy". The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 1987.

The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading, Hands, People

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