Friedrich Nietzsche Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Friedrich Nietzsche quotes, Friedrich Nietzsche sayings, and Friedrich Nietzsche proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. Friedrich Nietzsche
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators! Friedrich Nietzsche
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses. Friedrich Nietzsche
Smooth ice is paradise for those who dance with expertise. Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. Friedrich Nietzsche
A vocation is the backbone of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water. Friedrich Nietzsche
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. Friedrich Nietzsche
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold. Friedrich Nietzsche
What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'. Friedrich Nietzsche
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. Friedrich Nietzsche
The strongest have their moments of fatigue. Friedrich Nietzsche
The so-called 'shortcuts' have always exposed mankind to great hazards; at the happy news that such a 'shortcut' has been found, they have invariably deserted and lost their own way. Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love. Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love. Friedrich Nietzsche
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. Friedrich Nietzsche
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is inhuman to bless where one is cursed Friedrich Nietzsche
An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life. Friedrich Nietzsche
We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. Friedrich Nietzsche
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