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the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty, Voice, Soul

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Dance, Art

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Benefits, Reason

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Isolation, Herds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.69, e-artnow

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Mean
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.573, Vintage

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sweet, Heart, Wine

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Discipline, Perspective, Horizon

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Weed, Marijuana, Smoking

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Space, Weight, Sturdy

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Lust, Forgiving
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.124, Vintage

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Law, Tyrants, Evil

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tragedy, Sensuality, Tragic

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Hate, Long, Equal

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Apples, Annoyed, Idiot
"The Seattle Massacre : The Ripper Case Series". Book by J. J. Knight (p. vii), 2011.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Religious, Integrity
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother, Vanity, Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.149, e-artnow

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Shows, Stills

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Speech, Want, Way
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.125, Penguin

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Ethics, Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.62, Courier Corporation

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny, Sex, Women

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Patience, Eye, Sides

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Powerful, Invention
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spirit, Wit

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Delight, Carefree, Pathology

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Age, Judgment, Human Condition

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