Existence Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence begins in every instant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To what end the ‘world’ exists, to what end ‘man­kind’ exists, ought not to concern us at all for the moment except…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche