Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Tragedy

• I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Climbing, Hiking

  "Hammer of the Gods: Selected Writings".

• Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Philosophy, Men

• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Honor, Tragedy

• Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Hero, Play

• Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Mad, Tragedy

• The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Heart, Mean

• Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Vanity, Tragedy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.149, e-artnow

• Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tragedy, Sensuality, Tragic

• Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tragedy, Crumbs, Masters

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 54), 1872.

• Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Book

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