Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Perspective

• You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

• There are no facts, only interpretations.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Encouraging, Witty, Truth

  Notebooks, Summer 1886 - Fall 1887.

• Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Discipline, Perspective, Horizon

• 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

• Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Law, Perspective

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Vintage

• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

• From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Perspective, House

• The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Expectations, Perspective

• There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Objectivity, Knowing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.555, Modern Library

• The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Perspective, Devil, Ancient

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.277, Modern Library

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