Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Saints

• When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Saint, Forests

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.37, Friedrich Nietzsche

• A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Climbing, Two, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

• Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Devil, Saint

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

• And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Warrior, Saint, Praying

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.181, e-artnow

• Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Honesty, Stupid, Russia

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

• A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Two, Climbing

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

• This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Artist, Ideas

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