7/30/2019 Favorite Nietzsche

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Colts favorite Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only

way, it does not exist.

I cannot believe in a god who wants to be praised all the time.

If we had believed from childhood that all salvation issued from someone other than

Jesussay, from Mohammedis it not certain that we should have experienced the same

blessings? .Faith does not offer the least support for a proof of objective truth. Here the

ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you

wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

That is the core of the Hellenic notion of the contest: it abominates the rule of one and

fears its dangers; it desires, as a protection against the genius, another genius.

That my life has no aim is evident even from the accidental nature of its origin; that I can

posit an aim for myself is another matter. But a state has no aim; we alone give it this aim

or that.

The different languages, set side by side, show that what matters with words is never the

truth, never an adequate expression; else there would not be so many languages.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.

Thinking of oneself gives little happiness. If, however, one feels much happiness in this,

it is because at bottom one is not thinking of oneself but of ones ideal. This is far, andonly the swift reach it and are delighted.

The snake that cannot cast its skin perishes. So too with those minds which are prevented

from changing their views: they cease to be minds.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way-

not at all or in an interesting manner.

The best author will be he who is ashamed to become one.

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop

of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of

poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not

believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs

'I'. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out

something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear

the music.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high

to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness

and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live oncemore and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your

teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous

moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard

anything more divine.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.