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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Purpose

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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose, Impossible, Better Life

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose, Void

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Purpose, Void

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose, Chance, Foolishness

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Wind, Purpose, Sail

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature, Law, Purpose

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge, Inward, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.211, Courier Corporation

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Purpose, Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Thinking, Experience, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Way, Purpose, World

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Communication, Thinking, Purpose
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.219, Modern Library

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