Life Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, life is a woman!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Was that life? Well then, once more!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life is a dark chain of events.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the great stimulus to life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A life without music is an error.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life has not been devised by morality: it wants deception, it lives on deception.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

— 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 definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a…

— 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

“Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice',…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by: they do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine…

— Friedrich Nietzsche