Nietzsche Autobiographical Quotes

I have never pondered over questions that are not questions. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The heroism of sincerity lies in ceasing to be the plaything of time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All philosophy is a form of confession. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

At one time or another, almost every politician needs an honest man so badly that, like a ravenous wolf, he breaks into a sheep-fold: not to devour the ram he has stolen, however, but rather to conceal himself behind its wooly back. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts. ~ George Santayana

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Ahh . . . an educated man. Well, you're not as stupid as you look. Don't quote Nietzsche at me, kid. That German crackpot wouldn't know a real monster if it bit him on the ass. ~ Larry Correia

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

This saintly anarchist, who aroused the people of the abyss, the outcasts and "sinners," the Chandala of Judaism, to rise in revolt against the established order of things - and in language which, if the Gospels are to be credited, would get him sent to Siberia today - this man was certainly a political criminal, at least in so far as it was possible to be one in so absurdly unpolitical a community. This is what brought him to the cross: the proof thereof is to be found in the inscription that was put upon the cross. He died for his own sins - there is not the slightest ground for believing, no matter how often it is asserted, that he died for the sins of others. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'. ~ Michael Foley

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life ... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, "It is my will that the sun shall rise"; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, "I wish it to roll"; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, "Here I lie, but here I wish to lie." But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression "I wish"? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

An incalculable number of higher individuals now perish: but he who escapes their fate is as strong as the devil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To live as it pleases me, or not to live at all. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All great artists and thinkers are great workers. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would keep clean among men, must know how to wash himself even with dirty water. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Revaluation of all values! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was created by eternal love'
at any rate, there would be more justification for placing above the gateway to the Christian Paradise ... the inscription 'I too was created by eternal hate' ... ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that I especially find utterly unendurable? That I cannot cope with, that makes me choke and faint? Bad air! Bad air! The approach of some ill-constituted thing; that I have to smell the entrails of some ill-constituted soul! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche