Quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.

Discovering that one is loved in return really ought to disenchant the lover with the beloved. 'What? this person is modest enough to love even you? Or stupid enough? Or-or-

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

all life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error...

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

I deny morality as I deny alchemy.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all of which limit it to a fake learnedness.

In the end one experiences only oneself.

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.

as though the Truth were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.

Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Great intellects are skeptical.

A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if for other motives.' Thus the illusion remains in the minds of one's fellow men that the love is unchanged and still the same.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.