Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

452. “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

453. “The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us – in order to deceive ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

457. “You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

458. “Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

459. “Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

460. “Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

462. “Only where there are graves are there resurrections.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

464. “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

465. “The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered – and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

466. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

468. “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

469. “Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

471. “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

472. “The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

473. “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

474. “Love, too, has to be learned.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

476. “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

477. “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

478. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

483. “This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

484. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

486. “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

487. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

489. “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

490. “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

491. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

494. “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

495. “There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

497. “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

498. “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

499. “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

500. “My genius is in my nostrils.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche