Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Fighting

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Fighting, Hypocrisy

• He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Dragons, Long

• Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Martial Arts, Talent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.31, Penguin

• The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Fighting, Greatness

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

• Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Stupid, Sleep

• To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Fighting, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.27, Friedrich Nietzsche

• He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Halloween, Fighting, Monsters

• I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Couple, Hate, Ocean

• The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Fighting, Church

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.160, Vintage

• One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Fighting, Winning

• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Fighting, Boredom

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.152, Algora Publishing

• Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Errors, Evil

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1995). “Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.229, A&C Black

• You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Victory, Advise

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

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