Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Love is more afraid of change than destruction.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

354. “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

355. “Great intellects are skeptical.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

356. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

361. “The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

362. “We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

363. “There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my “evil eye” for this world, which is also my “evil ear”...”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

364. “If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

365. “The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

366. “Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

367. “If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

369. “I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

370. “In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

371. “The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

372. “I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

373. “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

374. “Remorse. – Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

375. “Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks – those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

376. “In war personal revenge maintains its silence.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

377. “Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

378. “What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

379. “The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine – love returned.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

380. “No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

381. “The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

382. “The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

383. “Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

384. “Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

385. “A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

386. “The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

387. “Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

388. “Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

389. “Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared – this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

390. “The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

391. “The only excuse for God is that he doesn’t exist.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

392. “The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

393. “The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

394. “You’re going to women? Don’t forget your whip!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

395. “In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required – acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

396. “And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

397. “Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

398. “Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

399. “Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

400. “Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche