Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Goals

• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

• My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soccer, Ideas, Goal

• Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

• For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Goal, Humanity

• The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits".

• I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Courage, Time

• By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Accomplish Your Goals, Way

• The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Men, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.532, Modern Library

• And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Errors, Self

• Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Goal, Doe

• 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

• He who has attained intellectual emancipation 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 traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.241, Courier Corporation

• Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Strength, Giving Up

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

• My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Goal, Lines

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.10, Oxford University Press

• Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goal, Trying, Noble

  "Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations".

• What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Bridges, Goal

• Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Law, Goal

• Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Self, Goal

• To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Home, Wind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.281, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Journey, Goal

• My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Goal

• Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Goal, Pathways, Obstinacy

• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Animal

• With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Numbers, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Goal, Suffering

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