Philosopher Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher has to be the bad conscience of his age.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A married philosopher is a comic character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Can an ass be tragic?To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“and I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. For the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the philosopher, conversely, there is nothing whatever that is impersonal;7”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors…

— Friedrich Nietzsche