Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Lust

• ...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 strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Pride, Men

• It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Perspective, Lust, Needs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.373, Vintage

• Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lust, Delight, Becoming

• There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Choices, Lust

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.51, e-artnow

• Love forgives the lover even his lust.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Lust, Forgiving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.124, Vintage

• Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Lust, Want

• Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Evil, Lust

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