Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Soul

• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Men, Discipline

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

• I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Soul, World

• There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

• I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Integrity

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

• If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Soul, Events

• But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Powerful, People, Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.134, Penguin

• I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Lonely, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

• This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Thinking, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.191, Penguin

• The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Luxury

• the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beauty, Voice, Soul

• 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

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Simple, People, Soul

  Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

• One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Giving, Joy

• Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Believe, Men

• I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Healing, Autumn, Soul

• He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Soul, Desire

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

• Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Real, Dancer

• The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Motivational, Art

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1951). “My Sister and I”, Olympia Press

• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Winning

• It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Noble, Fundamentals

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

• A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Night, Giving

• What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Evil, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.296, Modern Library

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