# Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous quotes

Nietzsche's best-known lines with the work they come from, from «The Gay Science» to «Zarathustra». Only documented quotes, no greeting-card sayings.

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- Oct 1, 2022 · Jan Möller
- https://even.best/en/l/1052/friedrich-nietzsche-s-most-famous-quotes

## Top 12

1. **Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Beyond Good and Evil (1886), aphorism 146.
2. **God is dead.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — The Gay Science (1882), aphorism 125, «The Madman».
3. **What does not kill me makes me stronger.** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 8.
4. **If you have your why of life, you can bear almost any how.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 12.
5. **And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Beyond Good and Evil (1886), aphorism 146.
6. **Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman – a rope over an abyss.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 4.
7. **I am no man, I am dynamite.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Ecce Homo (1888), «Why I Am a Destiny».
8. **One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 5.
9. **Become who you are.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — After Pindar; in The Gay Science (§ 270) and as the subtitle of Ecce Homo.
10. **There are no facts, only interpretations.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — From his unpublished notes, 1886/87.
11. **Amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ecce Homo (1888), «Why I Am So Clever» 10.
12. **Without music, life would be a mistake.** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 33.

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