Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Desire

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Strength, Desire

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Levels, Tripping

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire

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

Men, Thinking, Desire

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 Nietzsche

Science, Desire, 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

Peace, Soul, Desire

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

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Annoying, Disposition

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Desire, Deeds

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Desire, Doe

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

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

History, Desire, Levels

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity, Desire, Should

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

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness, Wish, Desire

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Revenge, Successful, Desire

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.93, Friedrich Nietzsche

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lovely, Desire, Looks

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Experience, Doe

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Independent, Desire

Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.297, Vintage

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, One Love, Beyond Good And Evil

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

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophical, Desire, One Love

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Reincarnation, Cases

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

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Enemy, Desire, Demand

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.45, Vintage

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire, Ends

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creativity, Creative, Desire

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.126, Penguin

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Desire

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