Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes (2024)

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes and Quotations

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

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.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

The lie is a condition of life.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circ*mstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Only sick music makes money today.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

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.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part, that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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