Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit….I doubt that such pain makes us ‘better’; but I know that it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A really large amount of sympathy with both pain and joy (a feeling of pleasure resulting from being herded together, which is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in… — 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
