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
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
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
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
Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — 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
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
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.” — 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
“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
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
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit. — 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
Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“How each sex has its own prejudice about love — Despite all the concessions that I am willing to make to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which… — 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
