The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Quotes

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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether unkindness and opposition from without, whether some sort of hat...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislike...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself do...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant -- Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: -- gar nicht, oder interessant

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

One in three all friends are: Brothers in distress, equals facing rivals, free men - facing death!

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them. But who knows such love? who has e...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomo...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from the...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perha...

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Love, too, has to be learned.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs