Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Today

• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

• Only sick music makes money today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Money, Sick

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner”, p.206, Vintage

• I love those who do not know how to live for today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Live For Today, Merit

• Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Night, Yesterday

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

• A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Writing, Office

• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

• Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Today, Sin

• All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, People, Brutality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

• What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Machines, Today

• Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Destiny, Law, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Humanity, Burning

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.50, e-artnow

• What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Today, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.66, Friederich Nietzsche

• Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Hypocrisy, Atmosphere

• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Charity, Earth

• I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Yesterday, Forgive Me, Forgiving

• He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing, Today

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Friedrich Nietzsche

• The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Pirate, Today

  "Human, All Too Human".

• The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Feelings, Together

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.53, Penguin

• Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Destiny, Law

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.24, Friedrich Nietzsche

• More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Greatness, Men

• Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Enemy, Culture

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. by Helen Zimmern, Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself"/ aphorism 633, 1909-1913.

• Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Animal, Men

• Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Historical, Doubt

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