Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

202. “In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

203. “The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

204. “You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

205. “Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

206. “Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

207. “I am not a human being, I am dynamite.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

208. “It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

209. “Human, all too human.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

210. “The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

211. “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

212. “Happiness is the feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

213. “One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

214. “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

215. “Untroubled, scornful, outrageous – that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

216. “Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman – a rope over an abyss.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

217. “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

218. “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

219. “Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

220. “There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

221. “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

222. “Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

223. “Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

224. “Everyone who has ever built anywhere a “new heaven” first found the power thereto in his own hell.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

225. “Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

226. “One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

227. “The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

228. “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

229. “The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

230. “Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

231. “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

232. “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

233. “I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

234. “He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

235. “Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

236. “One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

237. “In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

238. “Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

239. “Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

240. “Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

241. “The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

242. “Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

243. “The pure soul is a pure lie.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

244. “The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

245. “All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

246. “The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

247. “Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

248. “I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

249. “God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

250. “All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche