Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes - Page 7

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Being sick is itself a kind of ressentiment. - Against this the invalid has only one great means of cure - I call it Russian fatalism, that fatalism without rebellion with which a Russian soldier for whom the campaign has become too much at last lies down in the snow.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

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

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

A thinking man never be a party man.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist’s WILL TO POWER.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier - their Christianity, for example.