Twilight of the Idols Quotes

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Only ideas won by walking have any value.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what you want and that you want. Fourth question for the conscience.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“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

“Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes;better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with contradiction and criticism only as a means, only involuntarily — the
three tasks for which educators are required. One must learn to see, one must learn to
think, one must learn to speak and write: the goal in all three is a noble culture.
Learning to see — accustoming the eye to calmness, to patience, to letting things
come up to it; postponing judgment, learning to go around and grasp each individual
case from all sides. That is the first preliminary schooling for spirituality: not to react
at once to a stimulus, but to gain control of all the inhibiting, excluding instincts.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols