Top 25 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche of 2485 - Page 65

Plato was a bore.

Plato, Philosophy, Bores

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Reality, Play, Mountain

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Enemy, Coward

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stars, Sacrifice, Earth

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.152, e-artnow

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Independent, Desire

Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.297, Vintage

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, Indignant

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Goes On, Littles, Too Much

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Education, Philosophy, Teaching

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical, Mean, Past

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Party, Men, Thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Home, Europe

"Why I Am so Clever".

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday, Forgive Me, Forgiving

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistake, Men, Trying

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Psychology, Vices, Idleness

Just as soon as we notice that someone has to force himself to pay attention when dealing and talking with us, we have a valid demonstration that he does not love us or that he does not love us anymore.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Talking, Doe

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature, Science, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.40, Courier Corporation

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Expectations, Perspective

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Mean, Thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.692, Modern Library