120 Quotes About Nietzsche

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".

In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a (Swiss) mountain top. But, intellectually at least, he accepted this condition. Since, he reasoned, a radical social critic, a 'free spirit' such as himself, sets himself ever more in opposition to the foundational agreements on which social life depends, he reduces the pool of possible comrades, and so of possible friends, to vanishing point.

Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, 'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' Keep that in mind.

In the popular view, and according to the common notion, Nietzsche is the revolutionary figure who negated, destroyed and prophesied. To be sure, all that belongs to the image we have of him. Nor is it merely a role that he played, but an innermost necessity of his time. But what is essential in the revolutionary is not that he overturns as such; it is rather that in overturning he brings to light what is decisive and essential.

I’m so fearlessthat I am naiveI am a lionand a child.

Yaşama karşı sorumluluğumuz, daha yücesini yaratmaktır, daha alçağını değil.Yürümeyi öğrenmenin ilk adımı, kendi kuralları olmayan insanın başkaları tarafından yönetilmek zorunda kalacağını anlamaktır. Başkalarının kurallarına uymak, insanın kendisini yönetmesinden çok, hem de çok kolaydır.Yaşarken yaşayın! İnsan, yaşamını tamamlayıp öldüğü zaman, ölüm taşıdığı dehşeti yitirir! İnsan doğru zamanda yaşamazsa, asla doğru zamanda ölemez.

Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?""Yeah, God is dead because Fredric Nietzsche killed him in his book The Joyful Wisdom in 1882.

Do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?""Yeah, God is dead because Nietzsche murdered him in 1882 writing The Joyful Wisdom.