Quotes
Quotations of Friedrich Nietzsche"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."(Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / Human, all too Human / 1878-1879) "Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Gay Science / 1882) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Gay Science / 1882) "Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / Twilight of the Idols / 1888) "The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / Twilight of the Idols / 1888) "It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Antichrist / 1888) "Great intellects are skeptical." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Antichrist / 1888) "What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Antichrist / 1888) "So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?" (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / The Antichrist / 1888) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900 / Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "The Christian resolve to find the world evil and ugly, has made the world evil and ugly." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) "It is not their love of humanity, it is the impotence of their love which has prevented the present-day Christians from bringing us to be burnt at the stake." (Friedrich Nietzsche / 1844-1900) Biography of Friedrich Nietzsche |