Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, 1888)

Without music life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols, Maxims 33, 1888)

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols, Maxims 8, 1888)

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Friedrich Nietzsche



One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Ecce Homo, 1888)

I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra - Prologue, 1885)

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?

Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra - Prologue, 1885)

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote: Of all that is written I love only what a man has written...

Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1885)

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil - Aphorisms 146, 1886)

Friedrich Nietzsche Biography

Born: October 15, 1844
Died: August 25, 1900

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, writer and poet. He is one of the world's most popular philsophers today and has written many different subjects.

Notable Works

Thus spake Zarathustra (1883)
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Genealogy of Morals (1887)
Twilight of the Idols (1888)
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