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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Desire

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What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.48, Courier Corporation

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1915). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

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