Top 25 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche of 2485 - Page 57

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Men, Mirrors, Musical

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness, Laughter, Truth

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Degrees, Assuming

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hands, Mercy, Euthanasia

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Humanity, Christianity, Antichrist

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Order, Creative

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Science, Artist, Air

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Character, Historical Knowledge, Objectivity

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blow, Self, Golden

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Struggle, Mean, Men

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Character, Men, Typical

Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women, Science, Artist

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Friedrich Nietzsche

War, Mean, Long

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.42, Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Joy, Good Man

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self, Choices, Lust

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.51, e-artnow

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, People, Evil

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hands, Alive, Philosopher

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Charity, Selflessness, Philanthropy

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christian, Church, Cult

That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Secret, Principles

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.76, Vintage

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Adventure, Men, Despair

Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sailing, World, Earth

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sweet, Stars, Blood

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Experience, Doe

Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Mean, Waiting

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