Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Heart

• One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strength, Heart, Emotional

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.128, Penguin

• They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love You, Heart, Ashamed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.103, Penguin

• The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Heaven, Earth

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Wayne (2004). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes what One is; The Antichrist: a Curse on Christianity”, p.135, Algora Publishing

• All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Order, Humanity

• ...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Heart, Wine

• The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Luxury

• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

• A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Heart, Needs

• The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Years, Yesterday

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

• The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.168, 谷月社

• Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Brother, Heart

• Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.55, U of Nebraska Press

• 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

• At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Stars, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.106, U of Nebraska Press

• We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Treasure

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.451, Modern Library

• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

• Many find their heart when they have lost their head.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Lost

• One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Heart, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.111, Penguin

• At heart I am a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Heart, Warrior

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Horse, Heart, Opponents

• When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Saint, Forests

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.37, Friedrich Nietzsche

• To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Religion, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

• That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart

  "Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (Section "Expeditions of an Untimely Man", §26), 1889.

• I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Heart, Character

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

• In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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