Plato was a bore.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated into a vice.
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.
The last Christian died on the cross.
Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, people, and times, it is the rule.
... the Earth hath skin, and the skin hath diseases. One of these... is called man.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great; beyond that, may the devil and statistics take them.
It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
Life always gets harder toward the summit - the cold increases, the responsibility increases.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity.
To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
I would believe only in a god who could dance.
I live in my own place have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself - I laugh. - inscribed over the door to Friedrich Nietzsche's house
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Last Updated on 27 January, 1997