" In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do

" What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995) German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Reading and Writing” German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good–the atavism of a more ancient ideal. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Life without music would be a mistake. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else! "

Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Will to Power” German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols—”Maxims and Arrows” German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Morality is herd instinct in the individual. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Plato is boring. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

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