Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Habits

• 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”

• All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Trying, Finals

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

• An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Important, Ethics, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Men, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.139, Courier Corporation

• Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Vanity, Average

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.54, Courier Corporation

• Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Personality, Birth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.122, Courier Corporation

• We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  May, Way, Tradition

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.61, Courier Corporation

• One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Mean, Pride

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

• 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

• Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Religious, Truth

• Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Hands, Habit

  "Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs".

• 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

• Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Matter, Habit, Tendencies

• The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Would Be, Habit, Unendurable

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.129, Courier Corporation

• One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheerful, Spirit, Habit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.720, Modern Library

• The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, People, Age

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.102, Vintage

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