Quote

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Friedrich Nietzsche

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Friedrich Nietzsche
Age: 55 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 15
Died: 1900
Died: August 25
Author
Classical Philologist
Classical Scholar
Composer
Music Critic
Pedagogue
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Frîdrîk Nîtşe
Fridrih Wilhelm Niče
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Federico Nietzsche
Frédéric Nietzsche
Friederich Nietzsche
Fryderyk Nietzsche
Fridrikh Nitche
Frederic Nietzsche
Phreiderikos Nitse
Ancient
Devil
Perspective
Therefore
Friend
Wisdom
Broadest
Away
Perspectives
Keeps

More quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Image
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
Every word is a prejudice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
One must repay good and ill but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
Marriages that made out of love (so-called love-matches) have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
I am not a man, I am dynamite!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: Give me thatin sacrifice--and we give it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Image
For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.
Friedrich Nietzsche