Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Desire

• Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire

• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity, Creating, Evil

• The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Annoying, Disposition

• What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Desire

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

• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Successful, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

• Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

• The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Levels, Tripping

• He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Soul, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• 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

• One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, One Love, Beyond Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creative, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.126, Penguin

• How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Noble Man, Bridges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

• Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Blood, Criticism

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

• Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Strength, Desire

• Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Wish, Desire

• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Ignorance, Simple

• Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Experience, Doe

• The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Strong, Opposites

• 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.".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Desire, Doe

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

• The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Fall, Humility

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

• Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vanity, Desire, Should

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Desire, One Love

• Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Reincarnation, Cases

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1915). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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