Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

353. “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

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

358. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

363. “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

364. “Great intellects are skeptical.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

365. “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

366. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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369. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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372. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

378. “It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

380. “You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

382. “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

383. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

390. “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

391. “Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

394. “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

395. “You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

398. “Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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399. “Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes – and calls it his pride.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche