Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who lived in the 19th century. He is best known for his ideas on the "will to power" and the concept of the "superman". His writings had a profound influence on modern thought and culture, and his works are still studied and discussed today. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on god, love, morality.
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
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.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
There are no facts, only interpretations. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About God
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!" — Friedrich Nietzsche
The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Love
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it — Friedrich Nietzsche
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Morality
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear is the mother of morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). — Friedrich Nietzsche
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. — Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Truth
The real question is: How much truth can I stand? — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Life
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Music
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life without music is no life at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only sick music makes money today. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche
A life without music is an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Education
What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored. — Friedrich Nietzsche
THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your educators can only be your liberators. — Friedrich Nietzsche
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Marriage
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely whom one has married — Friedrich Nietzsche
Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Friendship
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hold a true friend with both your hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy — Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Existential
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Reason
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! — Friedrich Nietzsche
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About People
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. — Friedrich Nietzsche
People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights! — Friedrich Nietzsche
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Invisible threads are the strongest ties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One must need to be strong; otherwise, one never becomes strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What does not kill me makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The real question is: How much truth can I stand? — Friedrich Nietzsche
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one. — Friedrich Nietzsche
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). — Friedrich Nietzsche
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs — Friedrich Nietzsche
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle - or as a temporary resting place. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? — Friedrich Nietzsche
What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty? — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche
...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Life Lessons by Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy emphasizes the importance of living life authentically and embracing one's individual identity.
He believed that life should be lived with passion and purpose, and that one should strive for self-mastery and self-improvement.
He also encouraged people to challenge the status quo and think for themselves, instead of blindly following the opinions of others.
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