Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Idols Quotes, Smell Quotes

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

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Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

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Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

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What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

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And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

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The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

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Become who you are!

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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

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