Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Mothers

• The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Joy, Excess

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

• Fear is the mother of morality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Fear, Morality

  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.66, e-artnow

• Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Family, Mother, Children

• Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Women, Despise

• Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Joy, Dissipation

• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

• Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Vanity, Tragedy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.149, e-artnow

• Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Mother

• Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Jealous, Son

• 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

• If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Home, Names

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