Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Past

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy, Tired, Past

Every past is worth condemning.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wise, Past, History

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspirational, Future, Past

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Brother, Past, Government

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Running, Time, Past

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

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Past, Greatness

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Disappointment, Past, Imagination

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Past, Men, Sea

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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Artist, Past, Men

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

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Past, Annoyed

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, Past, Men

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Past, Dust, Littles

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I Love Him, Past, Willing

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, e-artnow

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Past

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