Wisdom Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And you who are wise and knowledgable, you would flee from the burning sun of that wisdom in which the overman joyously…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“So I ask my pride that it always go along with my wisdom. And when my wisdom leaves me one day alas…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own…

— 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

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Insight: all evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“as if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why should one live? All is vain! To live - that is to thresh straw; to live - that is to burn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“My wisdom consists in my having been many things and in many places in order to become one person—in order to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche