Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Become who you are.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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2. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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3. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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4. “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

5. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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6. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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7. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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8. “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

9. “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

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10. “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

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11. “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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12. “I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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13. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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14. “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

15. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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16. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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17. “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

18. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

19. “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

20. “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

21. “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

22. “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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23. “All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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24. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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25. “That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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27. “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

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28. “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

29. “Man is the cruelest animal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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30. “Live dangerously.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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31. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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33. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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34. “That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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35. “What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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36. “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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37. “There are no facts, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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38. “The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

39. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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40. “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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41. “One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

42. “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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43. “Art is the proper task of life. ”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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44. “God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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45. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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46. “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

47. “And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

48. “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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49. “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

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50. “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche