Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “No victor believes in chance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

303. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

305. “I have forgotten my umbrella.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

311. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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320. “What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

321. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

326. “A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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331. “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?”

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332. “Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

333. “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

334. “The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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338. “Love is more afraid of change than destruction.”

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

341. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

344. “Great intellects are skeptical.”

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345. “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

349. “I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.”

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche