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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Doubt

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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mad, Doubt, Certitude

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Doubt, Belief

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Doubt, Belief

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Teacher, Pain, Doubt

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt, Individuality, Herds

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Greatness, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

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

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Joy, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Doubt, Able
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt, Insane, Certainty
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rights, Soul, Doubt
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessing, Doubt, Care

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheist, Historical, Doubt

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust, Inspire, Doubt

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Air, Doubt, Church

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Humanity, Doubt

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