Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

  • It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst – Friedrich Nietzsche

    It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • to have to combat one’s instincts-”that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    to have to combat one’s instincts-”that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep – Friedrich Nietzsche

    In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.– Friedrich Nietzsche

  • All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

    All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.– Friedrich Nietzsche