Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
1
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
2
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
3
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
4
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
5
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
6
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
7
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
8
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
9
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
10
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
11
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
12
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
13
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
14
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
15
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
16
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
17
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
18
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
19
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
20
Love is not consolation. It is light.
21
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
22
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
23
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
24
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
25
One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
26
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
27
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
28
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
29
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
30
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
31
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.
32
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
33
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
34
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
35
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
36
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
37
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
38
Success has always been a great liar.
39
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
40
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
41
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
42
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
43
Woman was God’s second mistake.
44
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
45
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
46
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
47
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
48
Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
49
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
50
A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.
51
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
52
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
53
There are no facts, only interpretations.
54
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
55
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
56
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
57
Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
58
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
59
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
60
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
61
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
62
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
63
What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
64
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
65
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
66
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood – certainly not German blood.
67
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
68
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
69
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
70
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
71
The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
72
This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.
73
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
74
Plato was a bore.
75
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
76
Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
77
Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
78
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
79
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service.’
80
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
81
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
82
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
83
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
84
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
85
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
86
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.
87
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
88
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
89
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
90
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
91
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
92
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
93
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
94
‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?
95
The lie is a condition of life.
96
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
97
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
98
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
99
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
100
Art is the proper task of life.
101
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
102
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
103
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
104
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
105
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
106
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
107
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
108
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
109
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
110
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
