Twilight of the Idols QUOTES

2 " If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

4 " For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

6 " That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

8 " We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

10 " To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

12 " I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

14 " Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stück Verhängniss, man gehört zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen könnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen! "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

16 " These wisest men of all ages should be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? Tottery? Decadent? Late? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a Raven, attracted by a little whiff of carrion? "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

18 " In all speaking there is a grain of contempt. Language, so it seems, was invented only for what is mediocre, common, communicable. In language, speakers vulgarize themselves right away. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols

20 " Chrześcijaństwo jest metafizyką kata. "

― Friedrich Nietzsche , Twilight of the Idols