Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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It is not doubt,is certitude that drives you mad.
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Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.
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To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
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To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
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Faith is the path of least resistance.
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You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
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What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.
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Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.
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Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.
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Main deficiency of active people. Active men are usually lacking in higher activity-I mean individual activity. They are active as officials, businessmen, scholars, that is, as generic beings, but not as quite particular, single and unique men. In this respect they are lazy.