Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Experience

• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Experience

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

• Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Experience, Determined

• A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Character, Men

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

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Experience, Doe

• Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Experience, Purpose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Experience, Generations

• When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  House, Experience, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.413, Modern Library

• Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Experience, Use

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

• 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

• Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Experience, Littles

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