Top 100 Love Nietzsche Quotes
#2. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. You force all things to flow towards you and into you, so that they shall flow back again out of your fountain as the gifts of your love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. You utlilitarians, you too love everything useful only as avehicle of your inclinations - you too really find the noise of its wheels intolerable?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. There is not enough love and kindness in the world to permit us to give any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
But who knows such love? who has experienced it?
Its true name is friendship
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Man is something that hath to be surpassed: and therefore shalt thou love thy virtues, - for thou wilt succumb by them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Keep sacred your highest hope!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#25. Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#29. I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-
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#34. Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people
but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. I have thought of you much, and have shared with you in thought much that has been elevating, stirring, and gay, so much so that it has been like living with my dear friends. If only you know how novel and strange that seems to an old hermit like me? How often it has made me laugh at myself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. She has the power to both possess and shatter my entire universe, that is all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she does not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always attack and lightning and night, along with the light.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. And what ye have called the world shall but be created by you: your reason, your likeness, your will, you love, shall it itself become! and verily, for your bliss ...
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#50. You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
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#51. The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
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#56. Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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#58. The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
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#59. What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
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#60. Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.
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#61. Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.
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#63. Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love
and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.
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#64. I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#67. I love all those who are heavy drops falling from the dark cloud that hangs over men: they herald the advent of lightning, and, as heralds, they perish.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
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#70. They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#75. Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.
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#81. One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!
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#82. I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
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#84. I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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#89. What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
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#90. Let your virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if you must speak of it, then do not be ashamed to stammer about it. Then speak and stammer: "This is my good, I love this, thus I like it entirely, thus alone do I want the good. I
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#91. Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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#92. Inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.
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#93. 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.
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#94. is true we love life; not because we are wont to live, but because we are wont to love. There
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#96. To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.
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#97. Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may perish through a small matter: thus he goes willingly over the bridge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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