Modern Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

13 Modern quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche offers 13 incisive observations on modernity, each sentence cutting to the core of contemporary dilemmas with his characteristic vigor.

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Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with…

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

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The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland,…

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Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of…

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In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music,…

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All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a…

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Faced with a world of "modern ideas" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a "specialty," a philosopher, if…

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It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now…

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“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning…

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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

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