Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Dreams

• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

• We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Interesting, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.173, Modern Library

• When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Dream, Long

• Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Believe, Fate

• I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Rights, Socialism

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

• What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Evil, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.296, Modern Library

• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Self Esteem, Done

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, (Aphorism 138), 1886.

• At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Stars, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.106, U of Nebraska Press

• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Poison, Littles

• And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Art, Reality

• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

• Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Fall, Hands

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.78, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Dream, Creativity

• Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Reality, Men

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, "Preface to Richard Wagner" (p. 13), 1872.

• Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Waking Life, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

• Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Long, Soul

• As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Men, Artist

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.281, Courier Corporation

• On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images in place of a narrative poetic language; they circumscribe our experiences or expectations or situations with such poetic boldness and decisiveness that in the morning we are always amazed when we remember our dreams.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Morning, Expectations

• Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Dream, Believe

• I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Sleep, Night

• I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Curves, Light

• About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Certain, Awake

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