Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

102. “A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

103. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

104. “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

105. “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it – all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary – but love it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

106. “There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

107. “Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

108. “My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

109. “No artist tolerates reality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

110. “The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

111. “What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

112. “Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

113. “Become who you are. Make what only you can make.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

114. “Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

115. “I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

116. “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

117. “Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

118. “Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

119. “Everything matters. Nothing’s important.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

120. “All great men are play actors of their own ideal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

121. “My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

122. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

123. “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

124. “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

125. “Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

126. “Was that life? Well then, once more!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

127. “Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

128. “I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

129. “Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

130. “The doer alone learneth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

131. “From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

132. “If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

133. “Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

134. “The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

135. “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

136. “To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both – a philosopher.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

137. “My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

138. “Plato was a bore.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

139. “What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

140. “I am really very, very tired of everything – more than tired.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

141. “The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

142. “Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

143. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

144. “Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

145. “Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

146. “Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

147. “I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

148. “A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

149. “But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs – is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

150. “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche