Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Nietzsche reflects on the challenges and perceived unproductiveness of youth.
In this quote, Friedrich Nietzsche suggests that youth is a challenging phase where individuals may struggle with productivity and purpose. He implies that the inherent qualities of youth can lead to feelings of restlessness and uncertainty, making it difficult for one to achieve meaningful accomplishments or contribute effectively to society. This perspective invites us to consider the value and struggles associated with the journey of growing up.
Themes
YouthProductivityNietzschePhilosophyGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about personal growth, one might quote Nietzsche to illustrate the struggles faced in youth.
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
If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you
Haruki MurakamiRead
What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?
Said NursiRead
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems of thinking obsolete or, when they are preserved, to extend, to modify and subtly or visibly to alter their value.
Sri AurobindoRead
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
Ravi ZachariasRead
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Swami VivekanandaRead
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Bruce LeeRead