Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Innocence

• All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, People, Brutality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

• Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessing, Heaven, Religion

• Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lust, Delight, Becoming

• There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Might, Innocence, Admiration

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.276, Modern Library

• Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Greatness, Innocence

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.39, Vintage

• Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Innocence, Pleasure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

• There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faith, Lying, Causes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.54, e-artnow

• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Monsters

• 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

• Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Demand, Innocence, Speak

• 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

• For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Apes, Innocence

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