Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (470 Quotes)


    Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.


    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.


    In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.


    Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

    Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

    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.

    Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.



    Life always gets harder toward the summit the cold increases, responsibility increases.

    What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

    The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.


    I tell you one must have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you you still have chaos in you.

    Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be.



    Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.


    Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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

    I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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

    The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

    So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

    Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal however, if the melody has not reached its end, it would also not have reached its goal. A parable.


    Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.


    The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."

    Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.


    Beggars. . . should be entirely abolished Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

    In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.


    One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.


    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.

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

    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.


    We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

    Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.


    Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

    It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.


    We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.


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