Friedrich Nietzsche left a lot of wisdom on the human psyche and some of his sayings are downright witty.
Trained as a philologist, Nietzsche was a megalomaniacal philosopher of culture who intended to end metaphysics, transform Western intellectual life, and deconstruct Christianity (perhaps through personally supplanting Jesus Christ in the West). His penetrating psychological and cultural insights force us to face up to the half-truths and evasions in the history of philosophy and in our own lives. He is the philosopher who above all others confronts us with that most disturbing of questions: Are we honest with ourselves when we are alone?[source]
Here are some of his selected quotes:
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Some quotes on Women:
“A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche had to say on ART, “Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
This is a character quote by Friedrich Nietzsche”Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s saying on church, “Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.”
On experience this is what he had to say, “Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.” more experience quotes.
This is a very nice Laughing quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, “He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.”
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.”
On learning from the ground up, Friedrich Nietzsche had a very beautiful saying in learning, “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
On senses, “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
true hierarchy of values.”
On witches, “Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.”
On dance, Friedrich Nietzsche had to say, “I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”
“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s saying on women, “If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away fr0m her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.”
“In Chr istianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.” but of course.
A friendship quote, “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”
And when Friedrich Nietzsche compared public education to public kitchens, it was downright funny, “In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
Another of Friedrich Nietzsche’s witty remarks, “In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.”
He had many interesting things to say about God, and one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s god quotes are “Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?” Yes indeed, was it men Who created god or was it god that created man.
Friedrich Nietzsche advised to to make it a point to press your views twice “It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” Convince them.
A Friedrich Nietzsche quote on Brevity “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” Who was it that said, brevity is the soul of the wit, and Friedrich Nietzsche was the wittiest of them all
This is a Friedrich Nietzsche quote on friendship and marriage, “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” Very practical.
This is what Friedrich Nietzsche had to say on sensuality “It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s another saying on death “Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
“Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.”
“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”
“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
“We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.”
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
“What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”
“When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.”
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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“There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.”
