Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Giving

• He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Family

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

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

• There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, God, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, Xist Publishing

• Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Wall, Giving Love

• This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Thinking, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

• Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Being Thankful, Receiving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.205, Penguin

• I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Giving, Atheism

• If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Tyrants, Evil

• One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, Existence

• One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Giving, Joy

• The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, World

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.567, Vintage

• 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

• 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

• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Winning

• Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, War, Men

• Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Night, Giving

• Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that
  was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Giving, Littles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.695, Modern Library

• Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Men, Giving Love

• When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Giving Up, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

• One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Phoenix, Giving

• Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Nobility

• There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Opposites, Evil

• Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Envy, Lucky

• We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Respect, Giving, Wish

• Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Sick, Advice

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

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