"To think historically is almost the same..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.”
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”
“We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.”
More on History
“When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.”
“Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.”
“Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.”
More on Thinking
“If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.”
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”