"We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value."
Read quote
4 likes
Quote collection
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (page 75 of 125)
2.5K quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages."
Read quote
4 likes
"Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little."
Read quote
4 likes
"We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes."
Read quote
4 likes
"When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything."
Read quote
4 likes
"Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles."
Read quote
4 likes
"I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct."
Read quote
4 likes
"All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive."
Read quote
4 likes
"Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy."
Read quote
4 likes
"Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die."
Read quote
4 likes
"Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life."
Read quote
4 likes
"I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!"
Read quote
4 likes
"There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all."
Read quote
4 likes
"Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons."
Read quote
4 likes
"In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city."
Read quote
4 likes
"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes."
Read quote
4 likes
"A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude."
Read quote
4 likes
"The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'."
Read quote
4 likes
"The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults."
Read quote
4 likes
"If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?"
Read quote
4 likes