Friedrich Nietzsche Mistake Quotations

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.