Quotes About Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Father's Day is the time to honor and celebrate Father figure in your life, and appreciate with gratitude what you have received from Father in your life. Our courage, discipline and strength are the gifts from Father. In my view, everyone needs Father in her/his life- as Friedrich Nietzsche said once: "When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Enjoy Father's Day!

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

As one of the consequences of the death of God, Friedrich Nietzsche foresaw that people could find themselves stuck in cycles of Christian theology with no way out. Specifically that people would inherit the concepts of guilt, sin and shame but would be without the means of redemption which the Christian religion also offered.

Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes...what? world perhaps?

The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I never believed in the people when they spake of great men - and I hold to my belief that it was a reversed cripple, who had too little of everything, and too much of one thing.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept impure, is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

If you could imagine dissonance assuming human form - and what else is man? - this dissonance would need, to be able to live, a magnificent illusion which would spread a veil of beauty over its own nature." Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, ed. R. Geuss & R. Speirs, Cambridge, 2007, 163. (p.154)