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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Education, Children, Growing Up
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Children, Real

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Fun, Men

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Truth, Revenge

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Women, Doe
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.113, Penguin

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Soul, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Brother, Children, New Beginnings

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Play, Serious

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Men, Play

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Mean, Men

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Flower, Butterfly

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Family, Mother, Children

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Future, Sea
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Leadership, Children, Teaching

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Soul, World

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Spiritual, Atheist, Children
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Soul, Body
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.40, e-artnow

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Suicide, Children
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.72, Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Maturity, Men

"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

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Eye, Men

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, Grief, Eye
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Children, Fear

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, May, Revolution

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Children, New Beginnings, Games

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