Habits Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche