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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit… He that writes with blood and proverbs does not want to be read, but learned by heart. In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route you must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Aphorisms, Writing, Write with Blood
“A few more indications of my morality. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too light. The whole stomach working, the first condition for a good digestion. You must know the size of your stomach.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Tagged: metabolism, Philosophy
“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Tagged: Beyond, Death of God, Grammar, Against Structure
“He is utterly without envy, but there is no merit in that, for he wants to conquer a country that nobody has possessed and scarcely anyone has even seen.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Envy, Paths Unknown
“The new philosopher can arise only in conjunction with a ruling caste, as its highest spiritualization. Great politics, rule over the earth, are at hand.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Great Politics, Theory and Practice, Theory And Praxis
“On this road lies the future of the highest men: to bear the greatest responsibility and not collapse under it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Responsibility, Weight, Extreme Politics, Extremism
“Sit as little as possible; give credence to no thought that is not born in the open air and accompanied by free movement — in which the muscles do not also celebrate a feast.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
Tagged: Philosophy
“To find everything profound—that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Eye, Profound Seeing, Seeing the Profound, Thought Catalog, Create Difference
“Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Clarity, Defining Quality, Obscurity, Timid, How To Write, Writing Strategies
“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Idealism, Ambition Is Poison, The Power of Now
“I wish men would begin by respecting themselves: everything else follows from that.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Power of Ego, Thought Catalog or Nietzsche?, Your Value
“Philosophy, as I have understood and lived it, is a voluntary living in ice and high mountains: a seeking after everything strange and questionable in existence, all that has been excommunicated by morality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: No Ethics, Philosophy, Think Different, Screw Ethics
“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but always only what he thinks of a thing in relation to the requirements of those he educates.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Education, Truth In A Passing Contextual Moment, Relationalism
“Seeing that I must shortly approach mankind with the heaviest demand that has ever been made on it, it seems to me indispensable to say who I am.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise (Penguin Great Ideas)
Tagged: first lines of books
“I dance after you, I follow wherever your traces linger. Where are you? Give me your hand! Or only one finger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Dancing, Nietzche, Poetry, Women
“Consciousness is the last and latest development of the organic and hence also what is most unfinished and unstrong.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Consciousness, Evolution, Next Steps, Push, Unfinished Mind
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Into The Void, Superficial, Theology
“Woe, when you feel homesick for the land as if it had offered more freedom—and there is no longer any 'land.'”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Freedom, Groundless Ground, Homesick, To The Ocean
“To redeem the past and to transform every 'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus!' – that alone do I call redemption!”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: History, Philosophy, Philosophy of History, Redemption
“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“I find it tasteless to be familiar.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Ethics of Explosion, A Thousand Ethics
“It is mythology to think that forces obey laws.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: The Biggest Picture, God Lives
“What good is a book that does not even carry us beyond all books?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Beyond Books, Books, Childrens Books, Medium = Message
“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: first lines of books
“Here is a little ideal I stumble upon once every five weeks on a wild and lonely walk, in an azure moment of sinful happiness. To spend one’s life amid delicate and absurd things; a stranger to reality; half an artist, half a bird and metaphysician; with no care for reality.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: My Idea Of A Vacation, Azure
“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! A doctrine is needed powerful enough to work as a breeding agent: strengthening the strong, paralyzing and destructive for the world-weary. The annihilation of the decaying races... Dominion over the earth as a means of producing the higher type. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Elitism, Evil, War
“The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: Groundless Ground, Nihilism, Teleology
“Every error, of whatever kind, is a consequence of degeneration of instinct, disgregation of will: one has thereby virtually defined the bad. Everything good is instinct – and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Tagged: Effort, Impulse, Work Ethic
“The influence of climate on the metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration goes so far that a mistake in climate or locality may not only alienate a person from his task, it can withhold him from it altogether: he never gets a look at it.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce
Tagged: Philosophy, metabolism
“Gradually we become tired of the old, of what we safely possess, and we stretch out our hands again. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some more distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Tagged: Awalys Move, Change, Ennui, Possession
“Whatever forces us to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume different levels of semblance, lighter and darker shadows and tones of semblance — different values in the painter's sense of the term?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Tagged: Objectivity, Truth, Logic Against Logic, Scientific Perspectivism
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“Formula of my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Tagged: Focus Mantras, Teleology, Work Strategies, Aphorisms
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of painters?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Tagged: Art, Complexity, Liberal Arts, Marginalization, Objectivity, Painting, Truth
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
Tagged: Facts, Perspective, Reality, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Perspectival seeing is the only kind of seeing there is, perspectival 'knowing' the only kind of 'knowing'; and the more feelings about a matter which we allow to come to expression, the more eyes, different eyes through which we are able to view this same matter, the more complete our 'conception' of it, our 'objectivity', will be.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
Tagged: Diversity, Diversity Generators, Eyes, Objectivity, Perspectivism
“To see differently, the desire to see differently for once in this way is no small discipline of the intellect and a preparation for its eventual 'objectivity'— this latter understood not as 'disinterested contemplation' (which is a non-concept and a nonsense), but as the capacity to have all the arguments for and against at one's disposal and to suspend or implement them at will: so that one can exploit that very diversity of perspectives and affective interpretations in the interests of knowledge.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
Tagged: Perspectivism, Seeing Seeing
“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we ought to believe. Whoever says today: “I will not be a soldier,” “I care nothing for the courts,” “I shall not claim the services of the police,” “I will do nothing that may disturb the peace within me: and if I must suffer on that account, nothing will serve better to maintain my peace than suffering” — he would be a Christian. ”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power
Tagged: God Is Still Here (Not Dead), Secularized Theology, Secular Theology
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