Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Children

• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Soul, World

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Children, Real

• We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Hate, Flower

• Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Women, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.113, Penguin

• Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Children, Teaching

• Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Maturity, Men

• Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Camels, Three

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

• Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Family, Mother, Children

• To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Children, Produce

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

• To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Children, Fear

• We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Flower, Butterfly

• Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Truth, Revenge

• Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, May, Revolution

• In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Fun, Men

• "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Soul, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

• He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Children

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

• I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Future, Sea

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.146, Penguin

• The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jobs, Children, Conscious

• For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Mean, Men

• The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Passion, Two

• But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Children, New Beginnings

• This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happy, Mother, Children

• 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

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