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Science Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?…
- "Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
- The Gay Science, section 108
- Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no…
- Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
- He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance…
- Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and…
- Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific…
- Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
- We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or…
- Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!
- O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
- At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
- All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of…
- A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
- God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
- There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
- Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness…
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