Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Certainty

• [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Sublime, Development

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock (2001). “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

• Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Madness, Results, Certainty

• It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Noble, Fundamentals

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

• We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fun, Philosophical, Serious

• He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Action, Willpower

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

• Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Madness, Certainty, Uncertainty

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doubt, Insane, Certainty

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “On the Genealogy of Morals”, Vintage

• [Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Air, Regal, Certainty

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