World Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The world itself is a filthy monster.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why might not the world WHICH CONCERNS US—be a fiction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a blessing, the night…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“as if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche