Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes on Sense & Perception (7 Quotes)

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children

Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it.

If one considers what need people have of an external regulation to constrain and steady them, how compulsion, slavery in a higher sense, is the sole and final condition under which the person of weaker will can prosper then one understands the nature of conviction, faith.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him better.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian hatred of those who think differently the will to persecute. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.