“Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.”
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Famous Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Source: Human, All Too Human
“Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.”
“One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.”
“The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.”
Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings
“Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.”
“The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.”
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
“Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
Source: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What
Source: Human, All Too Human
Source: Complete works: The first complete and authorised English translation
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III
“A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
Source: A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book
Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra