Feelings Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that…

— 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

Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense…

— Friedrich Nietzsche