Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

302. “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

303. “A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

306. “Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

308. “The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

309. “Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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310. “The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

311. “All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

312. “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

313. “Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

314. “No victor believes in chance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

315. “To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

316. “I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

317. “I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

318. “All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

319. “Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

321. “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

322. “What I understand by “philosopher”: a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

323. “Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

324. “Beware of spitting against the wind!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

325. “The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

326. “The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other emotions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

327. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

329. “Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people – but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

330. “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

331. “It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one’s self.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

332. “Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

333. “The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

335. “What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure – as a mere automaton of duty?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

336. “Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life’s alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

337. “Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

338. “Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

339. “I have forgotten my umbrella.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

340. “Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

341. “I understand by ‘freedom of spirit’ something quite definite – the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

342. “A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

343. “A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

344. “In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

345. “One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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346. “Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

347. “All truths are bloody truths to me.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

348. “When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

349. “Better know nothing than half-know many things.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

350. “Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche