Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Risk

• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Real, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

• We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Men

• The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Climbing, Play, Risk

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.276, Penguin UK

• One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Water, Risk

• I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Believe, Law

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