Friedrich Nietzsche Reality Quotations

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear"..

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.