Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Will Ignite Your Mind

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the cruellest animal.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is something to be surpassed.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“To escape boredom, a man works either beyond what his usual needs require or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Christianity came into existence to lighten the heart, but now it needs to burden the heart to start with so it can lighten it afterwards. Consequently, it will perish.” — 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

“Never trust a thought that didn’t come by walking.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego.” — 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

“An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because how it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe. Without music life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” — 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

“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

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” — 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

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Without music, life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“We have art so that we shall not die of reality.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.” — 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

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” — 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 not let oneself be misled: they say ‘Judge not!’ but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.” — Friedrich Nietzsche[/pullquote]