Quotes from Fredrich Nietzsche

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...

I would only believe in a God that wold know how to dance.

Those who have abandoned God cling that much more firmly to the faith in morality.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Religion has debased the concept man; its ultimate consequence is that everything good, great, true is superhuman and bestowed only through an act of grace—

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

The Happy one Is to have fine senses and a fine taste.. To be accustomed to the select and intellectually best..to be blessed with a strong bold and daring soul..to go through life with a quiet eye and a firm step, ever ready for the worst as for the festival, and full of longing for undiscovered worlds and seas, men and Gods

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

Willing emancipates: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall you learn!

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the in vain, insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure-—being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long.—

If the morality of thou shalt not lie is rejected, the sense for truth will have to legitimize itself before another tribunal:— as a means of the preservation of man, as will to power.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

The corruption of morals is a consequence of decadence (weakness of the will, need for strong stimuli).

Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any meaning in suffering, indeed in existence. One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain.