Thinking Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking evil is making evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thinking man never be a party man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter-…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences:…

— 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

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche