Freedom Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The free man is a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is the seal of liberation?— No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such…

— 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

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains…

— 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

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer about…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the Christian Crusaders in the East came into collision with that invincible order of assassins, that order of free spirits par…

— 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

“My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the Christian crusaders in the Orient came across that invincible order of Assassins – that order of free spirits par excellence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more one liberated oneself from the dogmas, the more one sought as it were a justification of this liberation in a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at…

— Friedrich Nietzsche