Nietzsche, Friedrich

On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life


• Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few...
• And so let my proposition be understood and pondered: history can be borne only by strong personalit...
• Man ... always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.
“On Truth and Falsehood in an Extramoral Sense”


• What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum ...
“Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”


• The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by h...
• What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order t...
• Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without “taste,” at whatever is knowable, in the blind...
• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch up...
Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Second Part


• Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the ...
• Beware of spitting against the wind!
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