Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
"You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?" -- Friedrich Nietzsche, addressing anti-semitic Christians | |
"Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
"Science makes godlike -- it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden. Science is the *first* sin, the *original* sin. *This alone is morality.* ``Thou shalt not know'' -- the rest follows." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
"I call Christianity the *one* great curse, the *one* great intrinsic depravity, the *one* great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, *petty* -- I call it the *one* mortal blemish of mankind." -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller, "The Maid of Orleans", III, 6 | |
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism. -- Friedrich Nietzsche | |
Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |