Friedrich Nietzsche Soul Quotations

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The noble soul reveres itself

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

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

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

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

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

"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?

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge....

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

The pure soul is a pure lie.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.)

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

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

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

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...

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

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

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

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

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.

Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.