Friedrich Nietzsche Less Quotations

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.