Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Knowledge

• Better know nothing than half-know many things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Half, Knows

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

• There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

• The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Overcoming, Would Be

• In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Matter, Impulse

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Willard Huntington Wright (1917). “What Nietzsche Taught”

• Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Limits

• Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Lying, Knowledge

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

• In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Order, Intelligence

• We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

• He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Delight, Language

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.243, U of Nebraska Press

• Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Theory, Triumphant

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.222, Courier Corporation

• Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Bounds

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Fundamentals, Found

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.138, Courier Corporation

• For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Inward, Purpose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.211, Courier Corporation

• Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Thinking, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.108, Courier Corporation

• No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Honey

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

• Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

• Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Tree, Paradise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Conscious, Arise

• Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Cutting

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

• The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.31, Friedrich Nietzsche

• We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.177, Vintage

• Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Struggle, Knowledge

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.169, Vintage

• Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Truth, Knowledge

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Religious, Truth

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