--- title: "31 Hands Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "31 Hands quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Hands sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_hands_the-hour-hand-of-life-932044_932044.jpg" --- > [The hour-hand of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-hour-hand-of-life/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_hands_the-hour-hand-of-life-932044_932044.jpg) > [The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-lonely-one-offers-his-hand-too-quickly-to-whomever-he-encounters/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aea/friedrich-nietzsche-15_being-alone_the-lonely-one-offers-his-hand-too-quick_2267793.jpg) > [After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/after-coming-into-contact-with-a-religious-man-i-always-feel-i-must/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b5/friedrich-nietzsche-15_atheism_after-coming-into-contact-with-a-religio_2906192.jpg) > [Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/death-is-close-enough-at-hand-so-we-do-not-need-to-be-afraid-of-life/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/344/friedrich-nietzsche-15_afraid-of-life_death-is-close-enough-at-hand-so-we-do-n_1182195.jpg) > [The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-heart-and-hand-of-those-who-always-mete-out-become-callous-from/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e77/friedrich-nietzsche-15_callous_the-heart-and-hand-of-those-who-always-m_1644030.jpg) > [Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-habit-makes-our-hand-more-witty-and-our-wit-less-handy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/friedrich-nietzsche-15_habit_every-habit-makes-our-hand-more-witty-an_2710672.jpg) > [Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-habit-makes-our-hand-more-witty-and-out-wit-more-handy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/friedrich-nietzsche-15_habit_every-habit-makes-our-hand-more-witty-an_3236273.jpg) > [It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-not-in-our-hands-to-prevent-our-birth-but-we-can-correct-this/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eab/friedrich-nietzsche-15_birth_it-is-not-in-our-hands-to-prevent-our-bi_2073445.jpg) > [Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/is-it-not-better-to-fall-into-the-hands-of-a-murderer-than-into-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/friedrich-nietzsche-15_dream_is-it-not-better-to-fall-into-the-hands_1616055.jpg) > [All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/all-that-philosophers-have-handled-for-millennia-has-been-conceptual/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_alive_all-that-philosophers-have-handled-for-m_1414861.jpg) > [Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/art-furnishes-us-with-eyes-and-hands-and-above-all-the-good/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_able_art-furnishes-us-with-eyes-and-hands-and_935165.jpg) > [One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/one-has-been-a-poor-spectator-of-life-if-one-has-not-witnessed-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/161/friedrich-nietzsche-15_compassion_one-has-been-a-poor-spectator-of-life-if_1143997.jpg) > [Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/winter-a-bad-guest-sitteth-with-me-at-home-blue-are-my-hands-with-his/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/890/friedrich-nietzsche-15_blue_winter-a-bad-guest-sitteth-with-me-at-ho_1191588.jpg) > [Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/behold-i-am-weary-of-my-wisdom-like-a-bee-that-has-gathered-too-much/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/954/friedrich-nietzsche-15_bees_behold-i-am-weary-of-my-wisdom-like-a-be_2548184.jpg) > [Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/are-you-one-who-looks-on-or-lends-a-hand-or-who-looks-away-sidles-off/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/friedrich-nietzsche-15_conscience_are-you-one-who-looks-on-or-lends-a-hand_954765.jpg) > [Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/do-you-believe-then-that-the-sciences-would-ever-have-arisen-and/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f69/friedrich-nietzsche-15_alchemist_do-you-believe-then-that-the-sciences-wo_1361069.jpg) > [Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/yet-for-all-that-there-is-nothing-in-me-of-a-founder-of-a-religion/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_affair_yet-for-all-that-there-is-nothing-in-me_1381324.jpg) > [It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-seems-to-me-that-to-take-a-book-of-mine-into-his-hands-is-one-of/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/friedrich-nietzsche-15_assuming_it-seems-to-me-that-to-take-a-book-of-mi_2632982.jpg) > [So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/so-far-there-has-been-no-philosopher-in-whose-hands-philosophy-has/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a25/friedrich-nietzsche-15_apology_so-far-there-has-been-no-philosopher-in_3229621.jpg) > [Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/cows-sometimes-wear-an-expression-resembling-wonderment-arrested-on/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d5/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arrested_cows-sometimes-wear-an-expression-resemb_614482.jpg) > [Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/without-art-we-would-be-nothing-but-foreground-and-live-entirely-in/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b8/friedrich-nietzsche-15_art_without-art-we-would-be-nothing-but-fore_688423.jpg) > [The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-unlucky-hand-dealt-to-clear-and-precise-writers-is-that-people/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fb/friedrich-nietzsche-15_assuming_the-unlucky-hand-dealt-to-clear-and-prec_628131.jpg) > [Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/behold-i-am-weary-of-my-wisdom-like-the-bee-that-has-gathered-too/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac6/friedrich-nietzsche-15_bees_behold-i-am-weary-of-my-wisdom-like-the_2063317.jpg) > [Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/has-anyone-any-distinct-notion-of-what-poets-of-a-stronger-age/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/friedrich-nietzsche-15_age_has-anyone-any-distinct-notion-of-what-p_2053687.jpg) > [Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/actual-philosophers-are-commanders-and-law-givers-they-say-thus-it/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a8/friedrich-nietzsche-15_commanders_actual-philosophers-are-commanders-and-l_1197533.jpg) > [We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-must-remain-as-close-to-the-flowers-the-grass-and-the-butterflies-2/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_adults_we-must-remain-as-close-to-the-flowers-t_837457.jpg) > [The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-tragedy-is-that-we-cannot-believe-the-dogmas-of-religion-and/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5a/friedrich-nietzsche-15_arise_the-tragedy-is-that-we-cannot-believe-th_2083361.jpg) > [In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-a-man-devoted-to-knowledge-pity-seems-almost-ridiculous-like/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/friedrich-nietzsche-15_cyclops_in-a-man-devoted-to-knowledge-pity-seems_3155967.jpg) > [Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-ought-to-be-regarded-as-wrongdoers-who-deserve-to-be/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e02/friedrich-nietzsche-15_book_writers-ought-to-be-regarded-as-wrongdoe_1590152.jpg) > [The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-code-of-manu-differs-from-the-bible-by-means-of-it-the-nobles-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/553/friedrich-nietzsche-15_acceptance_the-code-of-manu-differs-from-the-bible_3004889.jpg) > [Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/those-moralists-on-the-other-hand-who-following-in-the-footsteps-of/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22b/friedrich-nietzsche-15_advantage_those-moralists-on-the-other-hand-who-fo_2970623.jpg) ## Other authors on Hands ## More by Friedrich Nietzsche > [Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/animals-know-nothing-of-themselves-and-they-also-know-nothing-of-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-select-man-strives-instinctively-for-a-citadel-and-a-privacy/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-breaks-my-heart-better-than-your-words-your-eye-tells-me-all-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/79-a-soul-which-knows-that-it-is-loved-but-does-not-itself-love/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/we-deceive-ourselves-when-giving-respect-to-the-person-for-whom-we/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-great-periods-of-our-life-occur-when-we-gain-the-courage-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-is-life-life-that-is-continually-shedding-something-that-wants/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/it-is-thus-only-this-personal-feeling-of-misery-that-we-get-rid-of-by/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/writers-whose-thoughts-are-expressed-with-clarity-and-precision-are/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/he-does-not-wear-a-twitching-mobile-human-face-but-rather-a-mask-as/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/chastity-is-a-virtue-with-some-but-with-many-it-is-almost-a-vice/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/the-earth-is-like-the-breasts-of-a-woman-useful-as-well-as-pleasing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/of-all-that-is-written-i-love-only-what-a-man-has-written-in-his-own/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/no-shepherd-and-one-herd-everybody-wants-the-same-everybody-is-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) > [Pain makes hens and poets cackle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/pain-makes-hens-and-poets-cackle/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hands/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "31 Hands Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 31, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The hour-hand of life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": 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