Nietzsche Quotes – Insights into the Human Condition

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

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. – Friedrich Nietzsche

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. – Friedrich Nietzsche

What does not kill me makes me stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. – Friedrich Nietzsche

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Invisible threads are the strongest ties. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche Quotes – Insights into the Human Condition part 2

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche

In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. – 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

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbaric than man. – Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. – Friedrich Nietzsche

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself. – Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Devil has the longest perspective. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Against boredom even the gods themselves struggle in vain. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The different physiological demands of intellectual and non-intellectual work require very different organs: the prevailing intellectual labour in Europe at present is probably destroying part of the capacity for mental labour—and its most indispensable prerequisite is the classical philologist’s education, which basically trains for the opposite, and ornaments this opposite. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Not to be jealous about talent, both present and past: not to be jealous about honour, whether divine, human or grass-roots: not to be angry at the deserved, for the aristocratic aside arises: still to wander through all and surpass all, oneself his own victory, his own revenge, his own vengeful monster and recuperating child, eternally youthful in adorning and rejuvenating eternity. – Friedrich Nietzsche

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule—and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.). The powerful natures dominate, it is a necessity, they need not lift one finger. – Friedrich Nietzsche