Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Nihilism

• We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2003). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.30, Algora Publishing

• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

• Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, World, Dissatisfaction

• And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Laughter, Truth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

• Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Nihilism, Want

• The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Men, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.532, Modern Library

• Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Nihilism, Doe

• I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Nihilism, Done

• All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Sin, Virtue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

• God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Years, Shadow

  The Gay Science bk. 3, sec. 108 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann) See Nerval 2; Nietzsche 12

• That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Form, Extremes

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