Friedrich Nietzsche Lame Quotations

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.