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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

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

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Science, Coaching
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Oscar Levy (1964). “Complete works: The first complete and authorised English translation”

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy, Science, Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.48, Penguin

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Desire, Cost
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Math, Science
"The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎". Book by Marcel Danesi (p. 71), 2004.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Individuality, Individual Morality
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Skepticism, Questioning Beliefs
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.76, e-artnow

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Strong, Science, Perfect

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Science, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.27, Penguin

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Art, Knowledge, Science
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Artist, Air

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women, Science, Artist

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Today, Scientist
1887 The Genealogy of Morals, essay 3,'What Do Ascetic Ideals Mean?'

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

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

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Death, Science, Knives
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Science, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.40, Courier Corporation

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Ignorance, Science, Order
"Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Carl C. Gaither, January 8, 2008.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Science, Law

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Science, Feelings

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Science, Hands

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Science, Men, Self

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Women, Science

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