Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Childhood

• In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

• We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Thinking, Play

• There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Choices, Childhood, My Birthday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Childhood, Youth, Ends

• Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Childhood, Stupidity, Prejudice

• Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Character, Childhood

• The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, New Beginnings, Games

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