Names Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the…

— 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 think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche