Character Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A married philosopher is a comic character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is punished best for one's virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear is the mother of morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For, confronted with morality (especially Christian, or unconditional, morality), life must continually and inevitably be in the wrong, because life is something…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the oppressed, downtrodden, outraged exhort one another with the vengeful cunning of impotence: "let us be different from the evil, namely…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Finally—this is what is most terrible of all—the concept of the good man signifies that one sides with all that is weak,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Error regarding life necessary to life. - Every belief in the value and dignity of life rests on false thinking; it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche