On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Power Quotes, Truth Quotes

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for...

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach...

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed...

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed...

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman...

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman...

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way...

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased...

To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased...

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be...

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Love is more afraid of change than destruction

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;...

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education;...

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of...

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of...

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.