Quotes About Wisdom

Friedrich Nietzsche

WE are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves: this has its own good reason.

if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. . . .

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgement on life: it is worthless.

Quiere esto decir que todos esos grandes sabios no sólo han sido decadentes, sino que ni siquiera han sido sabios?

Accordingly, I do not believe that an impulse to knowledge is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge!) as an instrument.

To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write. (VII

88 One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed.

Es necesario ser un mar para poder recibir una sucia corriente sin volverse impuro.

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

Truly, a filthy stream man is. One must be a sea, to receive a filthy stream without becoming impure.

Today a man with knowledge might easily feel like god transformed into an animal.

Um allein zu leben, muss man ein Thier oder ein Gott sein - sagt Aristoteles. Fehlt der dritte Fall: man muss Beides sein - Philosoph....

There is great advantage to be gained in distantly estranging ourselves from our age and for once being driven as it were away from its shores back on to the ocean of the world-outlooks of the past. Looking back at the coast from this distance we command a view, no doubt for the first time, of its total configuration, and when we approach it again we have the advantage of understanding it better as a whole than those who have never left it.

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

It is wisdom, worldly wisdom, to administer even health to oneself for a long time in small doses.

Mutter ich bin dumm.

Lovers of truth do not fear stormy or dirty water. What we fear is shallow water!

One must be prepared to sacrifice all desirability to truth, every truth, even plain, harsh, ugly, repellent, unchristian, immoral truth.?For such truths do exist

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

his wisdom meanwhile increased, and caused him pain by its abundance.

Short-sighted people are amorous. Sometimes just a stronger pair of glasses will cure an amorous man; and if someone had the power to imagine a face or form twenty years older, he might go through life quite undisturbed.

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.