Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Age

• When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Birthday, Marriage

• The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Mind, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Positive, Depression, Attitude

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.688, Vintage

• People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, People, Age

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 23, 1882.

• Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Religion, Age

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Cities, People

• Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Warrior, Age

  Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

• We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Age, Culture

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

• Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Age

• At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Marriage, Interesting, Conversation

• Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiration, Hands, Numbers

• God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Men, Religion

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 108

• The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Pride, Animal

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

• To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, History, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.140, Courier Corporation

• Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Men, History

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Age, Recognition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.171, Courier Corporation

• I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Age, Heroism

• In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Age, Judgment, Human Condition

• Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Hypocrisy, Atmosphere

• Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Men, New Experiences

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

• Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Evil, Judging

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

• You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Fall, Passion

• The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Age, Golden

• What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Age, Reverberation

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