“Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.” ThinkingWritingDoeBookLetters Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.” MenHeartHas BeensReasonWantedJoyDesireSufferingValuesGoalAnimalCreationCreatingAcquireSignificanceWoe Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.” WayNeedsLittlesLongSoulEndsMomentsDreamSpiritEconomyHabitExperienceSensitiveBroadsWakingCheerfulOur DreamsDaylight Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.” ThinkingLittlesMatterToo MuchExperienceAppetiteSimpletonsColic Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.” PeopleHumansImportantHuman BeingsCasesPaintingOriginalsEncountersCopiesImitation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.” IfsPersonsCreativityEventsRainWelcomeRejectionSunshineDeficiencyFertilityNegationManure Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.” GivenCreativityBirthSavedPregnancyThreadHungSuspended Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.” KnowsWantPersonsCreativityCreatingInstrumentsSlaveCreatorDevotedExchanging Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.” PainCreativityPoetHens Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
