Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote encourages finding a balanced perspective rather than extreme views.
In this quote, Nietzsche highlights the importance of maintaining a balanced viewpoint in life. By suggesting one should neither stay too low nor aim for too high a perspective, he emphasizes the value of moderation and the clear sight it offers about the world around us. This idea reflects the belief that wisdom comes from a thoughtful, middle-ground approach rather than radical extremes.
Themes
WisdomPerspectiveBalanceModerationViewpoint
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage individuals to seek a balanced approach in their careers.
More from Friedrich Nietzsche
All quotes βThat which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness β as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne β and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Similar quotes
Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your classroom is your life. The main course in the Earth school, Authentic Power, is the same for everyone, but different students need different courses in order to complete it.
Gary ZukavRead
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.
Marilyn FrenchRead
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Jules MicheletRead
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston ChurchillRead
This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian Of NorwichRead
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
Winston ChurchillRead