Friedrich Nietzsche Desire Quotations

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.