That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not… — 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
The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“in language man has placed a world of his own beside the other, a position which he deemed so fixed that he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought. — 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
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