Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

404. “The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

405. “One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

406. “Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

408. “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

409. “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

410. “Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

411. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

414. “Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

416. “Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

418. “Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

419. “My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

421. “Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

422. “The lie is a condition of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

423. “Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

424. “Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

426. “The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

427. “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

428. “The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

429. “But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

430. “The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

431. “Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

433. “A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

434. “Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

435. “How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

436. “He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

437. “What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

438. “Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power – assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

439. “Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

440. “Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

441. “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

442. “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

443. “O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

445. “The final reward of the dead – to die no more.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

446. “Sensuality often hastens the “Growth of Love” so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

447. “I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. “Shame” is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

448. “Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

449. “Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche