Friedrich Nietzsche Life Quotations

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

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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.

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.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Art is the proper task of life.

The lie is a condition of life.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

No artist tolerates reality.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant to life than any single realized joy could be.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Thinking evil is making evil.