Light Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The night is also a sun.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I live in my own light, I drink back into myself the flames that break from me”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thereafter Zarathustra went on again for two hours, trusting to the path and the light of the stars:”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche