Why I Am So Wise Quotes

“I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“A day when you haven't danced, you haven't lived.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Equality before the enemy -that is the main condition to fight a fair duel. Where you have contempt, you cannot wage war; where you are in command, where you can see someone beneath you, you should not wage war.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. — Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure — I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Those who keep silent are almost always lacking in delicacy and refinement of heart; silence is an objection; to swallow a grievance necessarily produces a bad temper — it even upsets the stomach. All silent people are dyspeptic. You may note that I do not care to see rudeness undervalued; it is by far the most humane form of contradiction, and, amid modern effeminacy, it is one of our first virtues.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Zarathustra, the first to grasp that optimism is just as decadent as pessimism and perhaps more harmful, says: good men never tell the truth. The good taught you false shores and false securities: you were born and kept in the lies of the good. Everything has been distorted and twisted down to its very bottom through the good.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Come hither, you pleasant, you witty, you clever books!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“dialectics as a symptom of decadence”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“The species of man Zarathustra delineates delineates reality as it is: he is strong enough for it — he is not estranged from it, he is reality itself, he still has all that is fearful and questionable in reality in him, only thus can man possess greatness...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“The species of man Zarathustra delineates delineates reality ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“Under these circumstances there exists a duty against which my habit revolts, namely to say: listen to me! For I am thus and thus. Do not, above all, confound me with what I am not!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise