Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Existentialism

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Existentialism, Pupils

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

• Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Lying, Religion

• Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Support

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Christopher Middleton (1996). “Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.7, Hackett Publishing

• Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Age

• You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wish, Looks, Existentialism

• The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Strong, Opposites

• All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Government, Fake

• No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shepherds, Different, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.86, Penguin

• Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Judging, Guilt, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Loathing, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.65, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Opposites, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.250, Penguin UK

• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

• Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Existentialism, Despise

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Existentialism, Ifs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.72, Penguin UK

• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Fabulous, Existentialism

  "Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1873.

• Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Existentialism, Shallow

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

• I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Existentialism, Mistrust

  The Twilight of the Idols "Maxims and Arrows" sec. 26 (1888) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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