Age Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— 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

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche