Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Death Quotes

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed...

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed...

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to...

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way...

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned...

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned...

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in...

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in...

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits...

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits...

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a...

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a...

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil...

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil...

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible...

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not...

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not...

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.