Philosophy Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”

“To be unable to take his enemies, his misfortunes and even his misdeeds seriously for long – that is the sign of strong, rounded natures with a superabundance of a power which is flexible, formative, healing and can make one forget...”

“किसी अलौकिक परम सत्ता के अस्तित्व और उसमें आस्था मनुष्य के मन में गहरे धँसी होती है। यह सही है। इस परम सत्ता को, मनुष्य अपनी आखिरी अदालत मानता है। इस परम सत्ता में मनुष्य दया और मंगल की अपेक्षा करता है। फिर इस सत्ता के रूप बनते हैं, प्रार्थनाएँ बनती हैं। आराधना-विधि बनती है। पुरोहित वर्ग प्रकट होता है।कर्मकाण्ड बनते हैं। सम्प्रदाय बनते हैं। आपस में शत्रु भाव पैदा होता है, झगड़े होते हैं। दंगे होते हैं।”

“So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.”

“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”

“Тогава си счел всички земни придобивки за нищо. И сега недей да милееш за нищо. Имай готовност, като захвърлиш всичко, да останеш гол.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”