Spirituality Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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The noble soul reveres itself

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

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

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I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the…

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

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“Once the soul looked contemptuously upon the body, and then that contempt was the supreme thing: - the soul wished the body lean, monstrous, and famished. Thus it thought to escape from the body and the earth. But that soul was itself lean, monstrous, and famished; and cruelty was the delight of this soul! So my brothers, tell me: What…

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Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states…

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“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit," "free will" -- "unfree will" for that matter), and purely imaginary effects ("sin," "salvation," "grace," "punishment," "forgiveness of sins"). Intercourse between imaginary beings ("God," "spirits," "souls"); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; a total denial of the concept of…

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it…

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

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Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising…

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“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality, for charity and benevolence, will soon be forced to turn his back on them, discouraged and disappointed. For there is nothing here that suggests asceticism, spirituality, or duty. We hear nothing but the accents of an exuberant, triumphant…

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

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

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

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

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

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“The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the…

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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of…

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“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for…

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

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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