“The doer alone learneth.”
Author
Friedrich Nietzsche
122 quotes
“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
“When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
“When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”
“Success has always been a great liar.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”
“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.”
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
“Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”