49 Nietzsche Quotes that Will Make You Question Your Thoughts

“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 mine.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“Blessed are forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist but have You read Nietzsche?”
― John Fante

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I obviously do everything to be “hard to understand” myself”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you stare at someone long enough, they’ll eventually look back at you.”
― Cory Doctorow

“The final reward of the dead – to die no more”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have ‘improved.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“But is eternity an alternative to life? Isn’t it, on the contrary, the case that it is when one wants everything to be eternal that one most loves life and the world.”
― Alexander Nehamas

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelms

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“My genius is in my nostrils.”
― Friederich Nietzsche

“Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.”
― Jens Bjørneboe

“A man who wills command something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all the pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practiced at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“…all that is rare is for the rare.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life was indeed cruel, but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.”
― John Gray

“She stared out at the vacant darkness. The darkness stared back.”
― Jamie Lackey

“Ah, I cast indeed my net into their sea, and meant to catch good fish; but always did I draw up the head of some ancient God.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“… for the objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And life confided the secret to me: behold, it said, l am that which must always overcome itself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Similes, are all names of good and evil; they do not speak out, they only hint. A fool who seeketh knowledge from them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was that life?’ I want to say to death. ‘Well then! Once more!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increases its own knowledge,–did ye know that before?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― Sophie Jordan

“Great intellects are skeptical.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is an intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“To leave is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?”
― Fredrick Nietzche

“What doesn’t kill you is probably just taking a break to freshen up so it can come back and finish you off later.”
― Alex Bosworth

“Language has been mobilized and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.”
― Daniel S. Fletcher

“You love your virtue as the mother her child; but when was it heard of a mother wanting to be paid for her love?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity”
― Goethe

“We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don’t throw out the best part of ourselves.”
― Nietzsche