Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Teachers

• One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Existentialism, Pupils

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

• History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Men, History

• THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Educational, People

• A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Learning, Light

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue, part 9, 1883.

• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

• You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Should, Brake

• The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Respect, Teacher

• Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Done, Loyal

• Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Pain, Doubt

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