Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Purpose

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

• The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Enemy, Criminals

• I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Purpose, Impossible, Better Life

• 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

• For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Goal, Humanity

• Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Truth, Revenge

• Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Experience, Purpose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

• For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Inward, Purpose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.211, Courier Corporation

• Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Science, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.40, Courier Corporation

• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Science, Law

• In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Numbers, Connections

• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

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

• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Voice, Judging

  "The Will to Power".

• One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Communication, Thinking, Purpose

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.219, Modern Library

• So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Long, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.84, Modern Library

• Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Purpose, Void

• Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose, Void

• We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Purpose, World

• Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Purpose, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

• Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Law, Purpose

• When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Purpose, Chance, Foolishness

• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Age, Use

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

• 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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