{"author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche","total_quotes":720,"quotes":[{"text":"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["admiration","appreciation","distraction","obstacles"],"id":179,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of the spirit? Does this city not reek of the fumes of slaughtered spirit?Do you not see the souls hanging like dirty, limp rags? – And they also make newspapers from these rags!Have you not heard how the spirit has here become a play with words? It vomits our repulsive verbal swill! – And they also make newspapers from this verbal swill.They pursue one another and do not know where. They inflame one another, and do not know why. They rattle their tins, they jingle their gold.They are cold and seek warmth in distilled waters; they are inflamed and seek coolness in frozen spirits; they are all ill and diseased with public opinion.All lusts and vices are at home here; but there are virtuous people here, too, there are many adroit, useful virtues.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["emotions","lust","spirit","vice","virtue"],"id":1194,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"When one has not had a good father  one must create one.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["parenthood"],"id":1515,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"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.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["marriage","believe","yourself "],"id":1777,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["greatness","pain"],"id":4626,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"What does not destroy me  makes me strong.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["strong"],"id":4932,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"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 them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting!","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["heroes","morality","populace","race"],"id":5772,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["man","woman","men "],"id":6688,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpose of existence: It now has one additional need—the need for the ever new appearance of such teachers and teachings of a “purpose.” Gradually, man has become a fantastic animal that has to fulfill one more condition of existence than any other animal: man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in life—without faith in reason in life.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["anthropocentrism","meaning","meaning-of-life","self"],"id":6699,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["adam-gottbetter","artistic","human-existence","interpretation","observation","observe","philosopher","philosophy-of-life","reaction","reactions","reality-of-life","stimulation","training"],"id":6988,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":720,"pages":72,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}