THE SAYINGS OF NIETZSCHE
I). I do not advise you to work but to fight. I do not advise you to conclude peace but to conquer.
II). I wait for stronger men, stronger fighters, more victorious ones; such as are built four square in body and soul. Laughing Lions must come.
III). At the basis of all these noble races, the beast of prey, the splendid animal, lustfully roaming in search of spoils and victory cannot be mistaken.
IV). When the swords crossed each other, like serpents with red stripes, our fathers grow fond of life. Then—the 'sun of all peace'—seemed unto them to be weak and lukewarm; and a long peace caused them shame. How they sighed when on the walls hung swords, glittering but dry. Like unto their weapons they thirsted for battle.
V). The pride of warfare and power is the distinguishing badge of all true aristocrats.
VI). I bade them laugh at their own owlish wise men, and whatever had before sat warning them—a black scarecrow on the tree of life.
VII). Thou shalt love no one but thy friend; and above all things thou shalt hate thine enemy.
VIII). Verily, I laughed myself ill many a time over the weaklings who thought themselves 'good' because they had lame paws.
IX). The stillest words bring the storm. Thoughts that come on dove's feet govern the world.
X). The civilized ones. Every hour they become smaller, poorer, weaker. Poor pot vegetables: poor soil.
XI). For small people, small virtues are necessary.
XII). The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as the Determiner of Values. He does not require to be authorized, approved of. He passes judgement.
XIII). The slave has an unfavorable eye for the virtues of the powerful.
XIV). That Ideal Eunuch; the Idealist.
XV). An age of peril (such as the one we are now inaugurating) in which valor and manliness are rising in value, may perhaps, gradually harden the soul of men to such a degree, that they will again be in need of tragic dramatists.
XVI). The weak, that is to say, the majority.
XVII). Just as in the days of moral decay in classical antiquity, so now, the evil doctrine of the emancipation of women, arose from the slime of over education.
These are thoughts which are as thunderbolts.
I). I do not advise you to work but to fight. I do not advise you to conclude peace but to conquer.
II). I wait for stronger men, stronger fighters, more victorious ones; such as are built four square in body and soul. Laughing Lions must come.
III). At the basis of all these noble races, the beast of prey, the splendid animal, lustfully roaming in search of spoils and victory cannot be mistaken.
IV). When the swords crossed each other, like serpents with red stripes, our fathers grow fond of life. Then—the 'sun of all peace'—seemed unto them to be weak and lukewarm; and a long peace caused them shame. How they sighed when on the walls hung swords, glittering but dry. Like unto their weapons they thirsted for battle.
V). The pride of warfare and power is the distinguishing badge of all true aristocrats.
VI). I bade them laugh at their own owlish wise men, and whatever had before sat warning them—a black scarecrow on the tree of life.
VII). Thou shalt love no one but thy friend; and above all things thou shalt hate thine enemy.
VIII). Verily, I laughed myself ill many a time over the weaklings who thought themselves 'good' because they had lame paws.
IX). The stillest words bring the storm. Thoughts that come on dove's feet govern the world.
X). The civilized ones. Every hour they become smaller, poorer, weaker. Poor pot vegetables: poor soil.
XI). For small people, small virtues are necessary.
XII). The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as the Determiner of Values. He does not require to be authorized, approved of. He passes judgement.
XIII). The slave has an unfavorable eye for the virtues of the powerful.
XIV). That Ideal Eunuch; the Idealist.
XV). An age of peril (such as the one we are now inaugurating) in which valor and manliness are rising in value, may perhaps, gradually harden the soul of men to such a degree, that they will again be in need of tragic dramatists.
XVI). The weak, that is to say, the majority.
XVII). Just as in the days of moral decay in classical antiquity, so now, the evil doctrine of the emancipation of women, arose from the slime of over education.
These are thoughts which are as thunderbolts.