Giving Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth,…

— 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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very…

— 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

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to…

— 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

When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle…

— 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

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche