Knowledge Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

— Friedrich Nietzsche