Heard Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

11 Heard quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you’re wrestling with the noise of everyday life, Nietzsche’s sharp observations on hearing cut straight to the core. This short set gathers his most pointed remarks, giving you a quick but potent taste of his philosophical edge.

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I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

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...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

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Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

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Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and…

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When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest…

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Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be…

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This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder…

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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried…

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Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic…

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This…

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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