Friedrich Nietzsche Culture Quotations

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.