Psychology Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of all psychology

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How poor the human mind would be without vanity! It resembles a well stocked and ever renewed ware-emporium that attracts buyers of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But how does it happen that the mind of the dreamer is always so mistaken, while the same mind when awake is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The people on their part may think that cognition is knowing all about things, but the philosopher must say to himself: "When…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who wishes nothing more than daily to lose some reassuring belief, who seeks and finds his happiness in this daily…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Necessary.—One of those things that may drive a thinker into despair is the recognition of the fact that the illogical is necessary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche