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
Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
“What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be… — 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
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make… — 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
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder ofa religionreligions are affairs of the rabble; I find it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink. — 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
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
“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I started to investigate and unearth an old faith which for thousands of years we philosophers used to build on as the… — 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