100+ Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes that Will Upgrade your Thinking

Humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little: that alone

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile, we have improved.

In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend.

If a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force

On the mountains of truth, you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

An instinct is weakened when it rationalizes itself: for by rationalizing itself it weakens itself.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Convictions are prisons.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Life is a dark chain of events.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.