Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

152. “But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the “heavenly high jubilation,” must also be ready to be “sorrowful unto death”?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

154. “He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

155. “What makes us heroic? – Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

158. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— 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 future influences the present just as much as the past.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

168. “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

169. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

172. “Yes, life is a woman!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

176. “For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

178. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

185. “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

186. “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

189. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

192. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

195. “Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

197. “I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous – a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche