Friedrich Nietzsche Destiny Quotations

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.