Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

2. A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

3. Amor Fati – Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life.

4. Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

5. But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air. On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

6. Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

7. How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? Ecce Homo

8. It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

9. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

10. Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that. Twilight of the Idols

11. Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

12. No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

13. Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value."This unconditional will to truth—what is it? Is it the will not to allow oneself to be deceived? Or is it the will not to deceive? For the will to truth could be interpreted in the second way, too—if only the special case "I do not want to deceive myself" is subsumed under the generalization "I do not want to deceive." But why not deceive?But why not allow oneself to be deceived?Note that the reasons for the former principle belong to an altogether different realm from those for the second. One does not want to allow oneself to be deceived because one assumes that it is harmful, dangerous, calamitous to be deceived. In this sense, science would be a long-range prudence, a caution, a utility; but one could object in all fairness: How is that? Is wanting not to allow oneself to be deceived really less harmful, less dangerous, less calamitous? What do you know in advance of the character of existence to be able to decide whether the greater advantage is on the side of the unconditionally mistrustful or of the unconditionally trusting? The Gay Science

14. One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

15. One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

16. Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up. The Portable Nietzsche

17. Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth. Untimely Meditations

18. Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction Beyond Good and Evil

19. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

20. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

21. The more mistrust, the more philosophy. The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

22. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

23. The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

24. There are no facts, only interpretations.

25. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

26. There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. A Nietzsche Reader

27. Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

28. We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are. On the Genealogy of Morals

29. What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short, a sum of human relations which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

30. What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. The Gay Science