Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

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

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

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

“You shall become the person you are.”

“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.”

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.”

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”

“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.”

“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”

“We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”

“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.”

“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

"This is my way; where is yours?" Thus I answered those who asked me "the way." For the way does not exist.”

“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”

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

“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”

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