History Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Discontent is the seed of ethics

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every past is worth condemning.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

— 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

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense…

— 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

“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I look at this age with the eye of a distant future, I find nothing so remarkable in the man of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself…

— Friedrich Nietzsche