Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Understanding

• If you know the why, you can live any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Knows, Ifs

• What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Understanding

• Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Gone, World

• The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Understanding, World

• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Science, Law

• To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Inward, Guarantees

• We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Opportunity, Practice, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2008). “Man Alone with Himself”, p.33, Penguin UK

• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Wish, Want

• When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Maturity, Men

• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Objectivity

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