Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Passion

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Inspirational, Life, Passion

"Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Passion, Intellectual, Laziness

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, Fall, Passion

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Character, Creative

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Vanity, Sight

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Experience

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Mean, Roots

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

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Believe, Passion

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Responsibility, Men

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Success, Passion, Errors

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.154, Courier Corporation

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Relationship, Sarcastic, Passion

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Errors, Self

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Spiritual, Passion, Loathing

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

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

Friedrich Nietzsche

War, Sleep, Passion

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Passion, Boredom

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Music, Passion, Jazz

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.274, Modern Library

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Heart, Goal

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.36, Booklassic

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

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Book, Passion, People

All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Past, Annoyed

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.37, U of Nebraska Press

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Style, Suits

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Mean, Enjoy

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.76, Friedrich Nietzsche

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Passion, Men, Rights

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, Passion, Intellectual

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.217, Courier Corporation

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Passion, Two

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Passion

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