“Wherever the religious neurosis has appeared on the earth so far, we find it connected with three dangerous prescriptions as to regimen:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We aeronauts of the spirit! All those brave birds which fly out into the distance, into the farthest distance – it is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here he seeks out his last master: he wants to fight him and his last god; for ultimate victory he wants to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle! Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge… — 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