14 Famous Philosophical Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

1. “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


2.  “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


3.  “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


4.  “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


5.  “The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



6.  “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



7.  “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



8.  “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



9.  “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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



10.  “The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



11.  “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



12.  “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche



13.  “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche