Friedrich Nietzsche Want Quotations

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

To have and to want more that is life.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.