Friedrich Nietzsche Age Quotations

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless...

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed...

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.