Tree Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

16 Tree quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s sharp intellect doesn’t shy away from the forest, and these sixteen observations turn trees into mirrors for power, will, and existential reflection. The collection feels like a terse yet potent dialogue with his challenging ideas.

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For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks…

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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it…

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,…

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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we…

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Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this…

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But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light,…

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Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it…

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Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to…

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Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused…

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The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought…

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Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

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This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more;…

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