Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Skepticism

• Great intellects are skeptical.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Skepticism, Intellect, Skeptical

• The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Strong, Opposites

• There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Skepticism, Questioning Beliefs

  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.76, e-artnow

• If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Faith, Strong

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

• I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Believe, Heart

• One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Spirit, Prison

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.385, Penguin

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