100 Top Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche That Smash Popular Notions
Friedrich Nietzsche was one a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture who went on to become one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. Nietzsche rose to fame for his writings on good and evil, the end of religion in modern society and the concept of a ‘super-man’. His writings on individuality and morality in contemporary civilization influenced many thinkers and writers of the 20th century. Though Nietzsche career spanned briefly, he published numerous works in philosophy in the short duration, two of the most prominent of which include ‘Twilight of the Idols’ and ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’. In his work, Nietzsche attempted to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality and philosophy that has deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. This probably is the reason as to why his work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Nietzsche's body of writing spanned across philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction, and drew widely on art, philology, history, religion, and science. The same can also be seen in his quotes that touch all the aforementioned genres and give readers a new perspective from which to look at. Listed below are some of the top quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
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.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Man is the cruelest animal.
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.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.
Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
