Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Woman was God’s second mistake.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

253. “Memory says, ‘I did that.’ Pride replies, ‘I could not have done that.’ Eventually, memory yields.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

254. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

263. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

266. “Convictions are prisons.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

268. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

270. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

274. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

276. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

278. “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

279. “The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

281. “Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

282. “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

283. “I wasn’t sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it’s Thursday. The thing about life still applies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

289. “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

290. “Beware of spitting against the wind!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

292. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

294. “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

295. “While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is “outside,” what is “different,” what is “not itself”; and this No is its creative deed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

296. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

298. “Christianity is Platonism for the people.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

299. “God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

300. “If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche