Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Age

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Witty, People, Age

"The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Revenge, Ignorance, Age

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Animal, Mind, Age

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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Age, Judgment, Human Condition

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Wisest Man, Age

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Age, Sound

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Warrior, Age

Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Friedrich Nietzsche

War, History, Age

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Age, Golden

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing, Age, Able

Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mean, Age, Culture

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Friedrich Nietzsche

War, Age, Heroism

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Greatness, Age, Recognition

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

Friedrich Nietzsche

War, Ideas, Age

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lying, People, Age

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.102, Vintage

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Honesty, Views, Age

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking, Age, Use

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There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Intuition, Age

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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Jesus, Religion, Age

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking, History, Age

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.140, Courier Corporation

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Evil, Age, Reverberation

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Echoes, Evil, Age

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Age, Looks, Too Much

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Age

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