Are you familiar with Friedrich Nietzsche? If not, you should be. He was one of the most influential philosophers of the 1800s. In this blog post, we’ll explore Nietzsche’s life and his impact on philosophy.
Here are the most known Truth, Knowledge, Power, Women, Spirit, Life, World Frases quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche, and much more.
Born:
15 October 1844
Died:
25 August 1900
Alma Mater:
University Of Bonn, Leipzig University
Era:
19Th-Century Philosophy
Region:
Western Philosophy
School:
Continental Philosophy, Nietzscheanism, And More.
Institutions:
University Of Basel
Main Interests:
Aesthetics, Classical Philology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosophy Of History And More.
Notable Ideas:
, And More.
The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wreckage of stars–I built a world from this wreckage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Books for all the world are always foul–smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, all too human. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.
His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights
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To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remain true to the earth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! — Friedrich Nietzsche
No artist tolerates reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My humanity is a constant self–overcoming. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Supposing truth is a woman––what then? — Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths–they haven’t any. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman was God’s second mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Yes, life is a woman! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are cowards when it comes to the ‘eternally feminine’: and the little women know it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Has a woman who knew she was well–dressed ever caught a cold? — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost two thousand years, and no new god! — Friedrich Nietzsche
To have and to want more that is life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Amor Fati–’Love Your Fate’, which is in fact your life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If we possess a why of lIfe we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche’s home was a stronghold of Lutheran piety. His father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a pastor who died before Nietzsche’s fifth birthday.
Friedrich spent most of his early life in a household consisting of five women: his mother, Franziska; his younger sister, Elisabeth; his maternal grandmother; and two aunts
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A vocation is the backbone of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One has renounced the great life when one renounces war. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the great stimulus to life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is life? A continuous praise and blame. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hour–hand of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The value of life itself cannot be estimated. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche
A life without music is an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In 1864 Friedrich Nietzsche went to the University of Bonn to study theology and classical philology. In 1865 he transferred to the University of Leipzig.
During the years at Leipzig, Nietzsche discovered Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy, met the great operatic composer Richard Wagner, and began his lifelong friendship with fellow classicist Erwin Rohde
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The lie is a condition of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are all afraid of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
On every parable you ride to every truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All truths are bloody truths to me. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The real question is: How much truth can I stand? — Friedrich Nietzsche
A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Who is better, they Who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who does not lie does not know what truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? — Friedrich Nietzsche
What are man’s truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We possess art lest we perish of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra was the first thorough statement of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and the masterpiece of his career.
It received little attention during his lifetime, but its influence since his death has been considerable in the arts as well as philosophy.
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Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The spirit of the poet craves spectators… even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. — Friedrich Nietzsche
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every profound spirit needs a mask. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The degree and kind of a man’s sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said––and did not say. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who create are hard of heart. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder––but not the ladder. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As long as you still experience the stars as something ‘above you’, you lack the eye of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive––signs of vulgarity! — Friedrich Nietzsche
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.––Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power–and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power–and nothing else! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of power is the demon of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ‘new heaven’ first found the power thereto in his own hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is the feeling that power increases–that resistance is being overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
