Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

202. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

205. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

219. “To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

220. “You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

221. “Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

223. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

227. “Human, all too human.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

230. “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

231. “Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

234. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

236. “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

239. “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

240. “I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

244. “If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn’t, he is not an all powerful god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

248. “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

249. “Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

250. “The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche