Quotes by Nietzsche, Friedrich

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the >>

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this lea >>

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. >>

Quotations about Language

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of >>

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. >>

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both >>

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.

Nietzsche, Friedrich