Die besten Zitate von Friedrich Nietzsche über das Leben

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Wisdom seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Man is something that must be overcome.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

One still work, for work, is a pastime. But one is careful lest the pastime should hurt one.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity, and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.