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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Love, Inspirational, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.203, Vintage

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Feelings, Wish
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Men, Feelings
"Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo".

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

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

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Sympathy, Joy, Feelings

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, Growing, Resistance

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Feelings, Duration
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings, May, Bears
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Punishment, People, Feelings

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride, Feelings, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.87, Vintage

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Attitude, Soul, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.654, Vintage

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Feelings, Sith
"The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorism 2, 1895.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship, Friends, Feelings

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Pride, Feelings
"Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology".

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Emotional, Feelings, Tongue
'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (1867-80) vol. 2, sect. 1, no. 202

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Feelings, Triumph

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Artist, Creative, Feelings
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Real, Mean, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration, Men, Feelings

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving, Feelings, Comforting
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.307, Penguin

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Feelings, Needs

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful, Men, Feelings
"The Will to Power" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Sec. 804 (Notebook W II 2. Fall 1887, KGW VIII, 2.220-1, KSA 12.554-5), 1888.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness, Feelings, Overcoming
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom, Science, Feelings

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Feelings, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.526, Modern Library

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