Play Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would…

— 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

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

— Friedrich Nietzsche