Friedrich Nietzsche on Writing
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #14450: "It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #231726: "The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that …"
4 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on Writing
"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
"The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better."
"Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has hitherto always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed: - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!"
"The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The "thing in itself" is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays hold of the boldest metaphors.' To begin with, a nerve stimulus is transferred into an image: first metaphor. The image, in turn, is imitated in a sound: second metaphor. And each time there is a complete overleaping of one sphere, right into the middle of an entirely new and different one."