Quotes About Nietzsche

Nietzsche put the idea this way: "Man shall be trained for war and woman for the procreation of the warrior. All else is folly." He went further. In Thus Spake Zarathustra he exclaims: "Thou goest to woman? Do not forget thy whip!"—which

It all makes perfect sense if you start from Nietzsche's initial premise. The problem is that the premise is insane.

makes perfect sense if you start from Nietzsche's initial premise. The problem is that the premise is insane.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live!

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.