The full name of Friedrich Nietzsche is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. He was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist. Here we have shared Friedrich Nietzsche quotes on truth, books, nihilism, German, art, religion, funny, inspirational, and motivational.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, Röcken, Lützen, Germany and died on August 25, 1900, Weimar, Germany.
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason, he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. – Friedrich Nietzsche
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The doer alone learneth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. – Friedrich Nietzsche
On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Friedrich Nietzsche
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art raises its head where creeds relax. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason for madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my God; but who knows my God? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Not when the truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it, especially in art. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way, one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? – Friedrich Nietzsche
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment is more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. – Friedrich Nietzsche
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. – Friedrich Nietzsche
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love and keep modest as a giver. – Friedrich Nietzsche
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In praise, there is more obtrusiveness than in blame. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterward to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity, neither morality nor religion comes into contact with reality at any point. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a God. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming a mob. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. – Friedrich Nietzsche
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What? Do you seek something? Do you wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? Do you seek followers? Seek zeros! – Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death. – Friedrich Nietzsche
To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love matches, so-called, have an illusion for their father and need for their mother. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone’s shame. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake, one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, the man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result, there are various truths, and as a result, there is no truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato was a bore. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In everything, one thing is impossible: rationality. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired someday. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth, a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.– Friedrich Nietzsche
Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities. – Friedrich Nietzsche
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. – Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs? – Friedrich Nietzsche
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is not consolation. It is light. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. – Friedrich Nietzsche
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie? – Friedrich Nietzsche
I love those who do not know how to live for today. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The lie is a condition of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes present. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the mother of morality. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders? – Friedrich Nietzsche
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t. – Friedrich Nietzsche
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality, there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. – Friedrich Nietzsche
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. – Friedrich Nietzsche
He who laughs best today will also laugh last. – Friedrich Nietzsche
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. – Friedrich Nietzsche
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for women. – Friedrich Nietzsche
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else! – Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood – certainly not German blood. – Friedrich Nietzsche
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There is in a general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. – Friedrich Nietzsche
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. – Friedrich Nietzsche
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. – Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Before the effect, one believes in different causes than one does after the effect. – Friedrich Nietzsche
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. – Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not when the truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead and a very rare species. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. – Friedrich Nietzsche
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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