Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Sleep

• Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Good Night, Dream, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

• The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Evil, Unity

• 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

• Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Stupid, Sleep

• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

• Sleep is no mean art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Mean, Sleep

• A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Two, Climbing

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.373, Cambridge University Press

• I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Sleep, Night

• People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Sleep, People

• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Maids, Bears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

• If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Virtue, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.53, 谷月社

• Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Equality, Liberty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

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