Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Memory says, ‘I did that.’ Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

253. “I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

254. “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

255. “The pure soul is a pure lie.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

256. “A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

260. “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

261. “Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

262. “Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

265. “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

266. “Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

268. “What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

269. “Your educators can only be your liberators.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

270. “Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

271. “Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

272. “Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

273. “In the end things must be as they are and have always been – the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

274. “People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

275. “Master-morality and Slave-morality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

276. “To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

277. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

278. “What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

279. “In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

280. “Only ideas won by walking have any value.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

281. “Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

282. “Man’s task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

283. “This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings – honors, treasures, beautiful women – accessible even to cowards.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

284. “Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

285. “In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

286. “Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

287. “But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

288. “Convictions are prisons.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

289. “If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

290. “Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism mean? – that the supreme values devaluate themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

291. “Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

293. “Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

294. “They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

295. “If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

296. “Faith is the path of least resistance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

297. “Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

298. “There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

299. “For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

300. “The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one’s level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche