Values Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves.They say: All that is worthlessand want to create no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the…

— 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

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle…

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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche