Children Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How changed Zarathustra is! Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one. What do you plan to do in the land of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“to be sure: except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into that kingdom of heaven [and Zarathustra pointed upward…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some…

— 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

“Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child. But what is woman for man? Two different things wanteth…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Zarathustra has become a child, an awakened one”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

— Friedrich Nietzsche