Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

452. “The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

453. “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

454. “Love, too, has to be learned.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

455. “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

456. “How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

457. “Generally speaking, the greater a woman’s beauty, the greater her modesty.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

458. “Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

459. “What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

460. “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

461. “Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power – assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

462. “Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

463. “O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

464. “The final reward of the dead – to die no more.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

465. “Sensuality often hastens the “Growth of Love” so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

466. “Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

467. “If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

468. “Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

469. “I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

470. “What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

471. “The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

472. “The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths – they haven’t any.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

473. “The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

474. “The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

475. “Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

476. “One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

477. “Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

478. “Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

479. “The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime – it even presupposes it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

480. “O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in “the truth,” and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-“il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien”-I wager he finds nothing!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

481. “Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

482. “The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

483. “The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

484. “The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men – as well as his great moments of grand harmony – a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion –.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

485. “There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

486. “If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

487. “These small things – nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness – are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

488. “Can an ass be tragic? – To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

489. “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

490. “The last Christian died on a cross.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

491. “I consist of body and soul – in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn’t we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

492. “From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

493. “Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

494. “Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

495. “Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

496. “Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

497. “Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

498. “One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor’s maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

499. “Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom – but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! – And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

500. “My genius is in my nostrils.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche