“The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...” — 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
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it. — 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
Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The creator wished to look away from himself,--thereupon he created the world.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me. — 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
A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always… — 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