Top 500 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

405. “Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

406. “Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

407. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

410. “We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, – it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

411. “War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

412. “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

413. “Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

414. “This verse gets me through each day, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the lord is my shepherd!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

416. “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

418. “Pity makes suffering contagious.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

420. “Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom – it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

421. “We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

423. “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

424. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

426. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

431. “You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

432. “The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us – in order to deceive ourselves.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

433. “Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

437. “Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

438. “Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

439. “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

440. “There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

441. “The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered – and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

442. “Only where there are graves are there resurrections.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

443. “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

444. “This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

446. “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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

448. “Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

450. “The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche