Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The creator wished to look away from himself,--thereupon he created the world.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“But let me reveal my heart to you entirely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods! He was human, and only a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Now I love God: men, I do not love. Man is a thing too imperfect for me. Love to man would be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate? And what in the world has caused more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To love mankind for the sake of God-that has been the most nobel and far-fetched feeling yet achieved by human beings. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“[339] Vita femina. To see the ultimate beauties in a work-all knowledge and good-will is not enough; it requires the rarest, good… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"… — 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