Spirit Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A "free spirit"—this cool expression does good in every condition, it almost warms. One no longer lives, in the fetters of love…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche