Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Water

• It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Naughty, Water

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.107, Penguin

• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Greatness, Blood

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

• They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Humor

• The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

• In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Men, Water

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Profound, Water

• We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Water, Fallen

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

• One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Water, Risk

• It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Wine, Fire

• The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Water, Depth, Obscurity

• Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Water, Trying, Crowds

• We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Water, Needs

• What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Air, Water

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