Friedrich Nietzsche on Purpose Quotes

"The Stoic sage is an ideal of the past. The man of the future will be a creator, not a mere endurer of life."

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is; this ignorance requires a long patience."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"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 mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it."

"Everything worth while has begun by being invisible for a long time; the creator must endure the invisibility."

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones existence were a work of art."

"In the end, one experiences only oneself."

"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can endure to be with oneself and not roam about."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion what one is. This is the paradox of self-discipline."

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman—a rope over an abyss."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"The Stoic attempts to extinguish the fire of passion, but without that fire, the spirit becomes a cold ash."

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness."

"The Stoic says: 'Do not let the world touch you.' I say: 'Let the world consume you, so that you may be reborn.'"

"We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us."

"Whatever is done from love occurs beyond good and evil."

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

"And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

"The Stoic finds peace in the realization that he cannot change the world. I find power in the realization that I can create my own world."

"I love him who does not hold back a drop of spirit for himself; he has the patience to give everything away."