Friedrich Nietzsche Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Without music, life would be a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who strays from tradition becomes a
sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its
slave. Destruction follows in any case. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I could only believe in a God who could dance ... And now a God dances through me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this — Friedrich Nietzsche

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! — Friedrich Nietzsche

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities - I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not - that one endures. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything matters. Nothing's important. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? — Friedrich Nietzsche

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer
to DANCE on the feet of chance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are prisons. — Friedrich Nietzsche

...all that is rare is for the rare. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble soul reveres itself — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

By losing your goal, You have lost your way. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill you makes you stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it - all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity - , but to love it ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche