7 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes on Thinking

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on thinking

42. He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

47. Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

66. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

70. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier, simpler.

91. I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

131. People used to believe in 'the soul' as they believed in grammar and the grammatical subject: people said that 'I' was a condition and 'think' was a predicate and conditioned - thinking is an activity and a subject must be thought of as its cause. Now, with admirable tenacity and cunning, people are wondering whether they can get out of this net - wondering whether the reverse might be true: that 'think' is the condition and 'I' is conditioned, in which case 'I' would be a synthesis that only gets produced through thought itself.

137. One seeks a midwife for his thoughts, another someone to whom he can be a midwife: thus originates a good conversation.