The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing. — 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
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
Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built… — 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
“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
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 was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice… — 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
Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus… — 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
When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is… — 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
“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
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to… — 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
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to… — 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
Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. — 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
If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. — 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
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
