Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

52. “If you know the why, you can live any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

53. “What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

54. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

55. “Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

56. “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

57. “Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

58. “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

59. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

60. “A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

61. “There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

62. “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

63. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

64. “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

65. “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

66. “Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen. Few in pursuit of the goal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

67. “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

68. “One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

69. “What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

70. “If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

71. “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

72. “Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

73. “As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you”, you lack the eye of knowledge.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

74. “One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

75. “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

76. “A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

77. “If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

78. “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

79. “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

80. “Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

81. “All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

82. “There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

83. “It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

84. “Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

85. “Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

86. “The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

87. “Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

88. “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

89. “Only sick music makes money today.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

90. “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

91. “The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

92. “No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

93. “He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

94. “We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

95. “The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

96. “The life of the enemy. Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

97. “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

98. “You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

99. “I am one thing, my writings are another.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

100. “Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche