How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder ofa religionreligions are affairs of the rabble; I find it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever approaches these Olympians with another religion in his heart, searching among them for moral elevation, even for sanctity, for disincarnate spirituality,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The submission to Christianity on the part of master races is essentially the result of the conviction that Christianity is a religion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In your death , your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset around the earth, otherwise yours is a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
