Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Passion

• In music the passions enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Passion, Jazz

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Responsibility, Men

• Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Vanity, Sight

• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Experience

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

• 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

• The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Passion

• From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

• 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

• An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Mean, Roots

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

• The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Sleep, Passion

• Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Passion, Loathing

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

• It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Passion, Errors

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.154, Courier Corporation

• We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Long Ago, Should Have

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.51, Courier Corporation

• You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Fall, Passion

• 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

• The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Character, Creative

• love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Europe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

• In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Passion, Intellectual

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Passion, Boredom

• All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Past, Annoyed

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

• By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Mean, Enjoy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.76, Friedrich Nietzsche

• How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Passion, People

• No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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