Language Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the stillest words which bring the storm.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All words are prejudices.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word is a prejudice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Is language the adequate expression of all realities?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The false contrasts which the people, and consequently the language, believes in, are always dangerous fetters which impede the march of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth……

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not…

— 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

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Language as putative science. - The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche