Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

259. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

261. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

264. “Convictions are prisons.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— 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. “The pure soul is a pure lie.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

274. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

276. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

279. “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

280. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

282. “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

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283. “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

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

287. “Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— 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. “Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

294. “Christianity is Platonism for the people.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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296. “The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

298. “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

299. “At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

300. “It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche