Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

203. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

212. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

222. “Human, all too human.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

225. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

231. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

235. “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

241. “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

242. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

244. “Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

246. “The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

247. “Woman was God’s second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

249. “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

250. “When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche