Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Eyes

• There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Sphinx, Results

• To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Firsts, Sides

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

• The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Eye, Envy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

• Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Character, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.67, Penguin

• Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Patience, Eye, Sides

• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Eye, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Eye, Moon

• 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

• He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Eye, Long

• Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Truth, Revenge

• You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Eye, Yoke

• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Good Man, Aristocracy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.135, Courier Corporation

• He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Vanity, Deny

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

• Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Eye, Doe

• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Eye, Black

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

• It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Fall, Eye

• Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Grief, Eye

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.115, Vintage

• In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Eye, Reality

• As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Eye, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

• To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Profound, Might

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.198, Vintage

• Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Eye, Hands

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.164, Vintage

• Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Pride, Tails

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Objectivity, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

• There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Reality, Idols

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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