--- title: "3 Nietzsche Quotes By Mark Fisher" description: "3 Nietzsche quotes by Mark Fisher. Plus more from Mark Fisher and more Nietzsche sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c7/mark-fisher-3649_democracy_nietzsche-should-not-be-taken-seriously_1584541.jpg" --- > [Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/nietzsche-should-not-be-taken-seriously-as-a-political-theorist-at/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c7/mark-fisher-3649_democracy_nietzsche-should-not-be-taken-seriously_1584541.jpg) > [It will come as no surprise that I would count Nietzsche the perspectivist - he who questioned not only the possibility but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/it-will-come-as-no-surprise-that-i-would-count-nietzsche-the/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac8/mark-fisher-3649_desire_it-will-come-as-no-surprise-that-i-would_2068414.jpg) > [“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/fukuyama-s-thesis-that-history-has-climaxed-with-liberal-capitalism/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/122/mark-fisher-3649_cynicism_fukuyama-s-thesis-that-history-has-clima_2485841.jpg) ## Other authors on Nietzsche - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-sloterdijk-75062.jpg) Peter Sloterdijk 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/peter-sloterdijk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-viktor-e-frankl-93688.jpg) Viktor E. Frankl 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/viktor-e-frankl/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barbara-amiel-16284.jpg) John Carroll 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/john-carroll/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-kaufmann-94392.jpg) Walter Kaufmann 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/walter-kaufmann/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hermann-hesse-41906.jpg) Hermann Hesse 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/hermann-hesse/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-georg-brandes-37439.jpg) Georg Brandes 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/georg-brandes/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jean-nidetch-48053.jpg) David Maze 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-maze/) - [David E. Cooper 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-e-cooper/) ## More by Mark Fisher > [“It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/it-goes-without-saying-that-all-mental-illnesses-are-neurologically/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/what-is-remarkable-about-joy-division-is-the-way-they-are-bereft-of/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/while-football-embarrassingly-exposes-the-excesses-of-capitalism-the/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [The story of Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops' - tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital - is a parable (again almost too perfect)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/the-story-of-basinski-s-disintegration-loops-tapes-that-destroyed/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [Star Wars' was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/star-wars-was-a-sell-out-from-the-start-and-that-is-just-about-the/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/you-can-be-debased-without-relinquishing-your-identity-just-as-you/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [“The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/the-role-of-capitalist-ideology-is-not-to-make-an-explicit-case-for/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [Now that we are used to globalisation it's hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/now-that-we-are-used-to-globalisation-it-s-hard-to-imagine-a-time/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [Structurally, as is evident, the role of the 'Islamic Terror' is to fill the gap left by the disintegration of Stalinism. That is why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/structurally-as-is-evident-the-role-of-the-islamic-terror-is-to-fill/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/emancipatory-politics-must-always-destroy-the-appearance-of-a-natural/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [“Invited to think of the futuristic, we will still come up with something like the music of Kraftwerk, even though this is now as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/invited-to-think-of-the-futuristic-we-will-still-come-up-with/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [ “\[W\]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/w-hat-counts-as-realistic-what-seems-possible-at-any-point-in-the/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a Lorenzian rat-in-a-mirrored-labyrinth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/we-all-know-that-the-reality-of-reality-tv-is-an-artful-construction/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/i-loathe-my-name-because-it-is-mine-and-also-because-it-is-not-mine/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) > [While the emphasis on effects became a catastrophe for science fiction, it was a relief for the capitalist culture of which 'Star Wars' became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-fisher/while-the-emphasis-on-effects-became-a-catastrophe-for-science/) [Mark Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-fisher/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/mark-fisher/#itemlist", "name": "3 Nietzsche Quotes By Mark Fisher", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. 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