Philosophy Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Discontent is the seed of ethics

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Excess of strength alone is proof of strength”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher has to be the bad conscience of his age.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A married philosopher is a comic character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All philosophy is a form of confession.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thinker cannot do other than convert his physical condition into the most highly intellectual of forms –this act of transformation is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where are we headed? Are we not endlessly plunging —backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there an up and a down…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche