Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About History

• Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Confidence, Philosophy, Communication

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Philosophy, Men

• History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Men, History

• Discontent is the seed of ethics.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Philosophy, History

• History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Numbers, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.122, Courier Corporation

• Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Men, History

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

• A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  History, Historical, Faults

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.16, Courier Corporation

• To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, History, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.140, Courier Corporation

• Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, History, Personality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

• Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Art, Philosophy

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

• Every past is worth condemning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Past, History

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

• The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  History, Desire, Levels

• The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, History, Wish

  "Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1".

• Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, History, Looks

• The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, History, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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