--- title: "7 Seeking Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche" description: "7 Seeking quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche. Plus more from Friedrich Nietzsche and more Seeking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/friedrich-nietzsche-15_men_what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-t_159336.jpg" --- > [What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-truth-but-rather-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/friedrich-nietzsche-15_men_what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-t_159336.jpg) > [To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/to-live-as-i-incline-or-not-to-live-at-all-so-do-i-wish-so-wisheth/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/309/friedrich-nietzsche-15_alas_to-live-as-i-incline-or-not-to-live-at-a_1349557.jpg) > [In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/in-order-to-be-able-thus-to-misjudge-and-thus-to-grant-left-handed/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06d/friedrich-nietzsche-15_able_in-order-to-be-able-thus-to-misjudge-and_1937645.jpg) > [A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/a-nation-usually-renews-its-youth-on-a-political-sick-bed-and-there/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cc/friedrich-nietzsche-15_bed_a-nation-usually-renews-its-youth-on-a-p_2031387.jpg) > [Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/now-we-will-no-longer-concede-so-easily-that-anyone-has-the-truth-the/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d9/friedrich-nietzsche-15_caution_now-we-will-no-longer-concede-so-easily_2706833.jpg) > [ “O Life: \[…\] I fear you when you are near, I love you when you are far; your feeling allures me, your… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/o-life-i-fear-you-when-you-are-near-i-love-you-when-you-are-far-your/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5b4/friedrich-nietzsche-15_life_o-life-i-fear-you-when-you-are-near-i-lo_2915930.jpg) > [“Masks. - There are women who, however you may search them, prove to have no content but are purely masks. The man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/masks-there-are-women-who-however-you-may-search-them-prove-to-have/) [Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62f/friedrich-nietzsche-15_desire_masks-there-are-women-who-however-you-ma_3196625.jpg) ## Other authors on Seeking ## 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/seeking/friedrich-nietzsche/#itemlist", "name": "7 Seeking Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Friedrich Nietzsche" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-truth-but-rather-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/friedrich-nietzsche-15_men_what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-t_159336.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/friedrich-nietzsche-15_men_what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-t_159336.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/friedrich-nietzsche-15_men_what-the-philosopher-is-seeking-is-not-t_159336.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. 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