Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Demons

• What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

• Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Demon, Be Careful, Casts

• Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Philosophy, People

• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

• The love of power is the demon of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Demon, Desire For Power

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Mean, Ships

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.63, Cambridge University Press

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