It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. Friedrich Nietzsche teaching education philosophy All great artists and thinkers are great workers. Friedrich Nietzsche great-art great-work artist Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice. Friedrich Nietzsche truth spiritual knowledge 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 creative artist feelings When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche voice unique real How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. Friedrich Nietzsche music war enemy Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. Friedrich Nietzsche causes passing-away lying Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity. Friedrich Nietzsche fraternity running way One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people. Friedrich Nietzsche taste wish people Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. Friedrich Nietzsche have-courage knows There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche higher work men The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world. Friedrich Nietzsche pride animal lying 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 atmosphere hypocrisy strong 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. Friedrich Nietzsche royal philosopher calling Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return. Friedrich Nietzsche sacrifice return wanted What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under. Friedrich Nietzsche goal bridges men The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. Friedrich Nietzsche individual fields culture Humility has the toughest hide. Friedrich Nietzsche humility Life is that which must overcome itself again and again Friedrich Nietzsche again-and-again overcoming life-is All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. Friedrich Nietzsche herds isolation long