Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Freedom

• Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Enemy, Politics

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

• Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

• Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Responsibility, Responsible

  "Twilight of the Idols". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sect. 38, 1888.

• Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Doctrine, Zarathustra

• You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Eye, Yoke

• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Freedom, Men

• Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Men, Hats

• Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Pride, Littles

• Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Freedom, Confused

• Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Believe, Heart

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