Friedrich Nietzsche Wish Quotations

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

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

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 henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.