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Letter "F" » Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
«In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cooking, mediocre, public education
«The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Best friend,
Friendship,
Marriage,
Talent,
Wives
| Keywords:
best friend, founded
«To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both -- a philosopher.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, beast, leaving, The Third
«Since I grew tired of the chaseAnd search, I learned to find;And since the wind blows in my face,I sail with every wind.»
«On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
import, imports, recognizes, simile, similes, The Thinker, thinker, valleys, warmer
«The will to truth! That will which is yet to seduce us into many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers up to this time have spoken reverently -- think what questions this will to truth has posed for us! What strange, wicked, questionable question!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
posed, questionable, reverently, seduce, truthfulness, venture
«This has given me the greatest trouble and still does: to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body: what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, body weight, evening dress, first appearance, incomparably, invariably, originally
«Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
crude, cruder, For any, honorable, indifferent, name, no matter, persecution, persecutions, required, sect, sort, sort of
«The will to overcome a passion is in the end merely the will of another or several other passions»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
another, end, in the end, merely, overcame, overcome, passion, passions, several, The End
«Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Seasons
| Keywords:
blue, friendly, guest, handshaking
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