Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

355. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

360. “Great intellects are skeptical.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

361. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

364. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

367. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

371. “The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

373. “When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

376. “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

377. “Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

378. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

385. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

387. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

392. “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

393. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

396. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

398. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche