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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Confidence, Philosophy, Communication
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

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

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato, Philosophy, Bores

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Education, Philosophy, Teaching

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Government, Political

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Philosophical, School

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, World, Philosopher

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Philosophy, Errors
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Thinking, Firsts
"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, G. Whitlock trans., June 5, 2006.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, God, Philosophy

All philosophy is a form of confession.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Confession, Form

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Philosophy, Inspiration
"Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers, §5., 1886.

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