--- title: "12 Impulse Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "12 Impulse quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Impulse sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-puni_2231401.jpg" --- > [Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-punish-is-powerful/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-puni_2231401.jpg) > [To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-in-us-not-only-our-reason-but/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/friedrich-nietzsche-15_conscience_to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-i_39613.jpg) > [In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-matters-is-the-possession-of-it/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/774/friedrich-nietzsche-15_impulse_in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-ma_375619.jpg) > [Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/every-characteristic-absence-of-spirituality-every-piece-of-common/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f0/friedrich-nietzsche-15_absence_every-characteristic-absence-of-spiritua_1046125.jpg) > [Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/lust-and-self-mutilation-are-closely-related-impulses-there-are-also/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/friedrich-nietzsche-15_castration_lust-and-self-mutilation-are-closely-rel_2434777.jpg) > [But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-thus-do-i-counsel-you-my-friends-distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e9/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_but-thus-do-i-counsel-you-my-friends-dis_3009633.jpg) > [Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to-close-the-circle-and-declared/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ambiguous_christianity-has-done-its-utmost-to-clos_1264701.jpg) > [Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/kindliness-friendliness-the-courtesy-of-the-heart-are-ever-flowing/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_assistance_kindliness-friendliness-the-courtesy-of_1983956.jpg) > [But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/but-thus-i-counsel-you-my-friends-mistrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc7/friedrich-nietzsche-15_bloodhounds_but-thus-i-counsel-you-my-friends-mistru_2272539.jpg) > [I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privilege-i-do-not-recall-a-single/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_angle_i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privileg_1258592.jpg) > [Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/where-the-good-begins-where-the-poor-power-of-the-eye-can-no-longer/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25e/friedrich-nietzsche-15_benevolence_where-the-good-begins-where-the-poor-pow_1575919.jpg) > [When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/when-one-speaks-of-humanity-the-idea-is-fundamental-that-this-is/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/friedrich-nietzsche-15_ability_when-one-speaks-of-humanity-the-idea-is_3056284.jpg) ## Other authors on Impulse ## 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/impulse/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "12 Impulse Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-punish-is-powerful/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-puni_2231401.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-puni_2231401.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ed/friedrich-nietzsche-15_distrust_distrust-all-in-whom-the-impulse-to-puni_2231401.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-in-us-not-only-our-reason-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/friedrich-nietzsche-15_conscience_to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-i_39613.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/friedrich-nietzsche-15_conscience_to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-i_39613.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/friedrich-nietzsche-15_conscience_to-our-strongest-impulse-to-the-tyrant-i_39613.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-matters-is-the-possession-of-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/774/friedrich-nietzsche-15_impulse_in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-ma_375619.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/774/friedrich-nietzsche-15_impulse_in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-ma_375619.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/774/friedrich-nietzsche-15_impulse_in-the-knowledge-of-truth-what-really-ma_375619.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - 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They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. 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To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privilege-i-do-not-recall-a-single/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_angle_i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privileg_1258592.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_angle_i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privileg_1258592.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/friedrich-nietzsche-15_angle_i-fly-in-dreams-i-know-it-is-my-privileg_1258592.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable…” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. 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