Men Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man must become better and more evil.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is something to be surpassed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man makes god in his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The free man is a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Some men are born posthumously.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its…

— 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

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in…

— 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

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;…

— 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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche