We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

About Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel....

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Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right—especially when one is right.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

More quotations tagged with “youth”

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

—Evelyn Waugh

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

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