Friedrich Nietzsche Way Quotations

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

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.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

We are in the greatest danger of being run over when we have just gotten out of the way of a carriage.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.