All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Children”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”
“Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.”
“Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.”
“Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.”
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.”
“Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.”
“Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.”
“Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.”
“In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.”
“"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?”
“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”
“The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.”
“I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search.”
“For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.”
“To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.”
“I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?”
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.”
“The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.”

More Friedrich Nietzsche quote about:

You may also like:

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Laozi
Philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
Michel Foucault
Philosopher
Plato
Philosopher
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher
Voltaire
Writer