A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of… — 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
Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image