Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 50 votes from people: Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. · God is dead. · What does not kill me makes me stronger.. (Updated Oct 1, 2022.)
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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Top 12
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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886), aphorism 146.
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God is dead.
The Gay Science (1882), aphorism 125, «The Madman».
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What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 8.
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If you have your why of life, you can bear almost any how.
Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 12.
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And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886), aphorism 146.
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Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman – a rope over an abyss.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 4.
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I am no man, I am dynamite.
Ecce Homo (1888), «Why I Am a Destiny».
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One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883), Prologue 5.
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Become who you are.
After Pindar; in The Gay Science (§ 270) and as the subtitle of Ecce Homo.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
From his unpublished notes, 1886/87.
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Amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity.
Ecce Homo (1888), «Why I Am So Clever» 10.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
Twilight of the Idols (1889), «Maxims and Arrows» 33.
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Comments (9)
Hab Philosophie studiert, die Auswahl ist gut.
«Gott ist tot» wird so oft falsch verstanden.
Das Warum und Wie, mein Lieblingssatz.
Nietzsche auf Kalendersprüchen, er würde sich im Grab umdrehen 😄
«Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker» steht in der Götzen-Dämmerung, schön dass die Quelle dabei ist.
Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum. Absolut.
Endlich eine Liste mit echten Nietzsche-Zitaten.
Zarathustra fehlt mir etwas mehr.
Der Abgrund-Satz ist einfach unheimlich gut.