Amor Fati Quotes

• 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

  Greatness, Different, Amor

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.714, Modern Library

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, War, Wish

  1882 Die fro« hliche Wissenschaft ( The Gay Science), section 276 (translated by WKaufmann).

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• Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cheer Up, Fate, Amor

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• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Crush

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

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• My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Past, Greatness

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

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• 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 from henceforth!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Amor, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.223, Vintage

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• Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Reality, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Pain, Giving

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

  Joseph Campbell

  Happiness, Self, People

  "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, (p. 193), 1991.

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• This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Commitment, Fate

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.20, New World Library

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• There is always some madness in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Crush, Sexy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, I Believe, Knows

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.31, Harper Collins

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