The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence flung at him so… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And that discovery would betray the closely guarded secret of modern culture to the laughter of the world. For we moderns have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the 'truth' really is true, and the meaning of all culture is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian).… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having… — 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
