Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 6

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

They're so cold, these scholars!
May lightning strike their food
so that their mouths learn how
to eat fire!

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.-

A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these arid words and shakes and flaps in them- and I hardly know anymore when I look at it how I could ever have felt so happy when I caught this bird.

Not how one soul comes close to another, but how it moves away, shows me their kinship and how much they belong together.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.