Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Emotions

• One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Heart, Emotional

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.128, Penguin

• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Feelings, Tongue

  'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (1867-80) vol. 2, sect. 1, no. 202

• The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Believe, Passion

• The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Overcoming, Emotion, Beyond Good And Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.77, Friedrich Nietzsche

• We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sympathy, Wise, Emotional

• If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sorry, Use, May

• The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intellectual, Emotion, Reason

• Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sign Language, Moral, Emotion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.86, Friedrich Nietzsche

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