Friedrich Nietzsche Philosophical Quotes

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist" from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense".”

Lying Order Army

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?”

Play God Hero

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Philosophical

“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”

Matter Focus

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Philosophical

“Man is more ape than many of the apes.”

Men Apes

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Philosophical

“He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.”

Long Goal Independent

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Philosophical

“One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.”

Real Law Science

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Philosophical

“Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.”

Desire Philosophical

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Philosophical

“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”

Integrity Existentialism

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Philosophical

“Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.”

Writing Blood Spirit

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Philosophical

“Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.”

Thinking Successful Exercise

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Philosophical

“If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.”

Giving Opportunity Winning

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Philosophical

“Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.”

Sight Generations Experience

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Friedrich Nietzsche — Philosophical Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes