Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

153. “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

154. “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

155. “The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

156. “I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

157. “The future influences the present just as much as the past.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

158. “The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

159. “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

160. “In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

161. “Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that’s who you become most like.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

162. “To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

163. “We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

164. “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

165. “The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

166. “The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

167. “By losing your goal, You have lost your way.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

168. “Yes, life is a woman!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

169. “Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

170. “Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

171. “The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

172. “You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

173. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

174. “Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

175. “But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep – into evil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

176. “In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

177. “There’s no defense against stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

178. “This world is the will to power and nothing besides!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

179. “The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. – What does not destroy makes me stronger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

180. “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

181. “Never trust a thought that didn’t come by walking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

182. “For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

183. “Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

184. “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

185. “I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

186. “A life without music is an error.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

187. “When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

188. “If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

189. “A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

190. “The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

191. “Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

192. “The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

193. “We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

194. “Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

195. “Man makes god in his own image.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

196. “Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

197. “Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

198. “Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

199. “Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

200. “Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche