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

“The minds of others I know well;”

“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”

“This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies”

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

“My conception of freedom. - The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions immediately cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: subsequently there is nothing more thoroughly harmful to freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what they bring about: they undermine the will to power, they are the levelling of mountain and valley exalted to a moral principle, they make small, cowardly and smug - it is the herd animal which triumphs with them every time.”

“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...”

“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.”

“The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

“La prueba de ausencia no es prueba de ausencia”

“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason”

“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.”