Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Christianity is Platonism for the people.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

302. “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

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. “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

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

309. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

311. “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

312. “Beware of spitting against the wind!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

314. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

318. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

322. “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

323. “No victor believes in chance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

325. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

328. “I have forgotten my umbrella.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

332. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

336. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

340. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

342. “The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

343. “Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

345. “God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

346. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

348. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche