Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Woe entreats: Go! Away, woe! But all that suffers wants to live, that it may become ripe and joyous and longing- longing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanteth… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“to be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven [and Zarathustra pointed upward… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“O my brothers, your nobility should not look backward but ahead! Exiles shall you be from all father- and forefather-lands! Your children's… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is something quite amazing and monstrous about the education of upper-class women. What could be more paradoxical? All the world is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
![“to be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven [and Zarathustra pointed upward with his hands]. but we have no wish whatever to enter into the kingdom of heaven: we have become men — so we want the earth.” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b66/friedrich-nietzsche-15_children_to-be-sure-except-ye-become-as-little-ch_1811537.jpg)
