Friedrich Nietzsche Language Quotations

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.