--- title: "2 Nietzsche Quotes By Wilhelm Reich" description: "2 Nietzsche quotes by Wilhelm Reich. Plus more from Wilhelm Reich and more Nietzsche sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/wilhelm-reich-2565_celibacy_it-is-the-fate-of-great-achievements-bor_2004222.jpg" --- > [“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/it-is-the-fate-of-great-achievements-born-from-a-way-of-life-that/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/wilhelm-reich-2565_celibacy_it-is-the-fate-of-great-achievements-bor_2004222.jpg) > [“A capacidade de suportar o desprazer e a dor sem se tornar amargurado e sem procurar o refúgio no encouraçamento caminha lado a lado com a capacidade de receber a felicidade e de dar o amor. Como salientou Nietzsche, aquele…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/a-capacidade-de-suportar-o-desprazer-e-a-dor-sem-se-tornar-amargurado/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/wilhelm-reich-2565_amor_a-capacidade-de-suportar-o-desprazer-e-a_3223361.jpg) ## Other authors on Nietzsche - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-peter-sloterdijk-75062.jpg) Peter Sloterdijk 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/peter-sloterdijk/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-viktor-e-frankl-93688.jpg) Viktor E. Frankl 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/viktor-e-frankl/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barbara-amiel-16284.jpg) John Carroll 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/john-carroll/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-walter-kaufmann-94392.jpg) Walter Kaufmann 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/walter-kaufmann/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-hermann-hesse-41906.jpg) Hermann Hesse 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/hermann-hesse/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-georg-brandes-37439.jpg) Georg Brandes 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/georg-brandes/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jean-nidetch-48053.jpg) David Maze 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-maze/) - [David E. Cooper 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/david-e-cooper/) ## More by Wilhelm Reich > [The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-question-of-how-and-why-the-encrustations-and-rigidifications-of/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/saw-a-film-on-cancer-yesterday-shown-by-the-english-delegation-no/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“All human philosophy is riddled with the nightmare of searching in vain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/all-human-philosophy-is-riddled-with-the-nightmare-of-searching-in/) [wilhelm reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/i-know-that-what-you-call-god-really-exists-but-not-in-the-form-you/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [People should be \_very\_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/people-should-be-very-careful-when-choosing-the-future-fathers-and/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“Gradually it became clear that it is a fundamental error to try to give the sexual act a psychological interpretation, to attribute to it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/gradually-it-became-clear-that-it-is-a-fundamental-error-to-try-to/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/mistaking-insolence-for-freedom-has-always-been-the-hallmark-of-the/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/build-your-house-on-granite-by-granite-i-mean-your-nature-that-you/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [The vital energies regulate themselves naturally without compulsive duty or compulsive morality both of which are sure signs of existing antisocial impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-vital-energies-regulate-themselves-naturally-without-compulsive/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/you-ll-have-a-good-secure-life-when-being-alive-means-more-to-you/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [The suppression of natural sexual gratification leads to various kinds of substitute gratifications. Natural aggression, for example, becomes brutal sadism which then is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-suppression-of-natural-sexual-gratification-leads-to-various/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/the-cry-for-freedom-is-a-sign-of-suppression-it-will-not-cease-to/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/race-theorists-who-are-as-old-as-imperialism-itself-want-to-achieve/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/you-yourself-create-all-your-misery-hour-after-hour-day-after-day-you/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) > [“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-reich/i-want-you-to-stop-being-subhuman-and-become-yourself-yourself-i-say/) [Wilhelm Reich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-reich/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nietzsche/wilhelm-reich/#itemlist", "name": "2 Nietzsche Quotes By Wilhelm Reich", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christianity, with the doctrine of sovereign people, with socialism, with everything you touch. Why, you ask, do you do this? I don't believe you really want an answer. When you hear the truth you'll cry bloody murder, or commit it. … You had your choice between soaring to superhuman heights with Nietzsche and sinking into subhuman depths with Hitler. You shouted Heil! Heil! and chose the subhuman. You had the choice between Lenin's truly democratic constitution and Stalin's dictatorship. You chose Stalin's dictatorship. You had your choice between Freud's elucidation of the sexual core of your psychic disorders and his theory of cultural adaptation. You dropped the theory of sexuality and chose his theory of cultural adaptation, which left you hanging in mid-air. You had your choice between Jesus and his majestic simplicity and Paul with his celibacy for priests and life-long compulsory marriage for yourself. You chose the celibacy and compulsory marriage and forgot the simplicity of Jesus' mother, who bore her child for love and love alone. You had your choice between Marx's insight into the productivity of your living labor power, which alone creates the value of commodities and the idea of the state. You forgot the living energy of your labor and chose the idea of the state. In the French Revolution, you had your choice between the cruel Robespierre and the great Danton. You chose cruelty and sent greatness and goodness to the guillotine. In Germany you had your choice between Goring and Himmler on the one hand and Liebknecht, Landau, and Muhsam on the other. You made Himmler your police chief and murdered your great friends. You had your choice between Julius Streicher and Walter Rathenau. You murdered Rathenau. You had your choice between Lodge and Wilson. You murdered Wilson. You had your choice between the cruel Inquisition and Galileo's truth. You tortured and humiliated the great Galileo, from whose inventions you are still benefiting, and now, in the twentieth century, you have brought the methods of the Inquisition to a new flowering. … Every one of your acts of smallness and meanness throws light on the boundless wretchedness of the human animal. 'Why so tragic?' you ask. 'Do you feel responsible for all evil?' With remarks like that you condemn yourself. If, little man among millions, you were to shoulder the barest fraction of your responsibility, the world would be a very different place. 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