The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, final fragment

"The time for me hasn't come yet: some are born posthumously." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part penultimate

"Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage for that which he really knows." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXIX

"Without music, life would be an error." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXVIII

"...all gods are poets' parables, poets' prevarications." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXVII

"A joke is the epigram on the death of a feeling." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims, quoted in The Portable Nietzsche

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXVI

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXV

"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Notes, 1875," quoted in The Portable Nietzsche

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXIV

"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Fragment of a Critique of Schopenhauer," quoted in The Portable Nietzsche

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXIII

"The "German spirit" is for me bad air..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXII

"It is with Germans almost as it is with women: one never fathoms their depths; they don't have any, that is all. They aren't even shallow." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

(Blogger's Note: I'm not certain who should feel more insulted by this, Germans or women. Probably women. Especially German women.)

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XXI

"God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers--at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XX

"Philosophy, as I have so far understood and lived it, means living voluntarily among ice and high mountains--seeking out everything strange and questionable in existence, everything so far placed under a ban by morality." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XIX

"Scholars spend all of their energies on saying Yes and No, on criticism of what others have thought--they themselves no longer think." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XVIII

"Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He took away from me the best atheistical joke that precisely I might have made: "God's only excuse is that he does not exist." " -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XVII

"Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time--on which we are burned, as it were, with green wood--compels us philosophers to descend into our ultimate depths and to put aside all trust, everything good-natured, everything that would interpose a veil, that is mild, that is medium--things in which formerly we may have found our humanity. I doubt that such pain makes us 'better'; but I know that it makes us more profound." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XVI

"Those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most profound. Whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself, also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of existence." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XV

"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XIV

"Liquor and Christianity, the European narcotics." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XIII

"When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XII

"Almost everything we call 'higher culture' is based on the spiritualization and intensification of cruelty..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part XI

"Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding-place, every word also a mask." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part X

"Ultimately one loves ones desires and not that which is desired." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part IX

"To talk about oneself a great deal can also be a means of concealing oneself." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part VIII

"The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part VII

"What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate--and immediately forget we have done so." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part VI

"...behind a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist often--a very remarkable man." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part V

"Mature manhood: That means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part IV

"He who despises himself still nonetheless respects himself as one who despises" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part III

"A man with genius is unendurable if he does not also possess at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

The Month of Quoting Nietzsche, part II

"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reaches up into the topmost summit of his spirit." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

A New Year's Resolution

"God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. --And we--we still have to vanquish his shadow, too." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science