Friedrich Nietzsche Earth Quotations

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Remain true to the earth.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!