Reality Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

No artist tolerates reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,…

— 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

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How foolish it would be to suppose that one only needs to point out this origin and this misty shroud of delusion…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“That mountain there! That cloud there! What is 'real' about those? Try taking away the phantasm and the entire human contribution, you…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope…

— 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

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

— Friedrich Nietzsche