Top 34 Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
#1. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.
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#2. Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Nothing stands so much in the way of the production and propagation of the great philosopher by nature as does the bad philosopher who works for the state.
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#4. I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.
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#5. To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
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#6. All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
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#7. How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing ... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy ...
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#8. The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.
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#9. Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
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#10. What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.
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#11. This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.
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#12. What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become timeless.
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#13. The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world of symphony and to re-project them in the form if concepts
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#15. What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
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#16. Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
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#18. Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
H.L. Mencken
#19. Aristotle says that in order to live alone one must either be an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking. A man must be both; a philosopher.
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#20. Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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#21. I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.
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#24. If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
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#25. The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.
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#26. Can an ass be tragic?
To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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#27. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS, - that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.
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#28. I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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#29. All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.
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#30. Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
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#31. It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit
the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.
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#32. 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.'
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#33. There is a point in every philosophy at which the "conviction" of the philosopher appears on the scene; or, to put it in the words of an ancient mystery: adventavit asinus, / pulcher et fortissimus. (Translation: The ass arrives, beautiful and most brave.)
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#34. So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
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