Spirituality Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble soul reveres itself

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul, says wisdom.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Night has come; now all fountains speak more loudly. And my soul too is a fountain.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even the determination of what is healthy for your body depends on your goal, your horizon, your energies, your impulses, your errors,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up." ―Epigrams…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The sum of the inner movements which a man finds easy and as a consequence performs gracefully and with pleasure, one calls…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative and deals with contradiction and criticism only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As the bones, flesh, entrails and blood vessels are enclosed by a skin that renders the aspect of men endurable, so the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche