Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes



       “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche


        “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

       “Without music, life would be a mistake.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

        “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

       “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

         “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” 
- 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

        “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. ” 
- 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 advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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


         “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

        “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

       “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche


        “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

       “Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche,

        “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

        “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche,

        “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” 
- 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,

       “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche,

        “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

      “A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

       “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche


         “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

         “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross.” 
- Friedrich Nietzsche

        “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche