Top 25 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche of 2485 - Page 75

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Christian, Drug, Treasure

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

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

World, Enough

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.78, Courier Corporation

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fate, Errors, Music Is

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Giving, Nobility

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy, Philosophical, People

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom, Science, Feelings

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Vices, Christianity, Pity

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pregnancy, Creativity, Birth

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Air, Doubt, Church

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Enemy, Shame

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.79, Penguin

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistake, Responsibility, Errors

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1965). “The Philosophy of Nietzsche”, Signet Book

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe, Errors, Taste

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wise, Dream, Believe

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Rude, Receiving, Agents

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Law, Good Man

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

I am no man, I am dynamite.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Dynamite

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.782, Modern Library

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dream, Fall, Hands

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.78, Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Suicide, Suicidal, Night

'Jenseits von Gut und Böse' [Beyond Good and Evil] (1886) ch. 4, no. 157

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Detours, Six

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beautiful, Stupid, Climbing

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Teacher, Done, Loyal

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge, Honey

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Groups, Madness

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Demand, Firsts, Facts

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.46, Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrows, Words Of Wisdom, Mind

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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