Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Birds

• Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feet, Bird, Height

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.719, Modern Library

• There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Opposites, Evil

• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Ravens, Smell

• And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bird, Abyss, Ifs

• He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bird, Nests, Should

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.137, Penguin

• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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