Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Soul

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

Fear, Soul, Body

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.87, Penguin

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

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Simple, People, Soul

Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

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I Love Him, Soul

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

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

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Honesty, Soul, Cynicism

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.228, Modern Library

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

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Life, Death, Soul

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

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Beauty, Voice, Soul

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

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Peace, Soul, Desire

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

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Soul, Religion

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

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Soul, Affinity, Solidarity

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

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Caring, Soul, Shadow

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

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Gratitude, Soul, Thanks

The noble soul reveres itself

Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Noble

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Healing, Autumn, Soul

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

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Average, Soul, Together

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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Essence, Soul, Noble

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self, Soul, Events

It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Europe, Soul, Mind

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blood, Soul, Veins

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Body

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.95, Penguin

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Soul, World

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

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I Love Him, Giving, Soul

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.21, e-artnow

It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul, Noble, Fundamentals

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.619, e-artnow

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children, Soul, Body

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.40, e-artnow

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I Love Him, Soul, All Things

Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.22, e-artnow

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Soul

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