Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Reality

• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Exercise

• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

• All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Reality, Political

• There are no facts, only interpretations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Encouraging, Witty, Truth

  Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

• We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Reality, Dies

• No artist tolerates reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "The Rebel" by Albert Camus, (Part 4: Rebellion and Art), 1951.

• The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Friday, Atheist

• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

• Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Nature, Truth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The birth of tragedy”

• Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Language, Distortion

• When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Friend, Reality, Praise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.166, Courier Corporation

• The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, Reality, Vision

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.246, Vintage

• And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Art, Reality

• When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.29, Penguin

• Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Blood, Practice

• 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

• In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Eye, Reality

• Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Preface to Richard Wagner" (p. 13), 1872.

• Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Lying, Reality

• There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Reality, Idols

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.3, Oxford University Press

• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

• His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Self, Instinct

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1993). “Nietzsche Selections”, Prentice Hall

• He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Reality, Play, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.46, e-artnow

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