Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Heart Quotes, Atheism Quotes

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.

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A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

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Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

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Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

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How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

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For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

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Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

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Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.

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The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.

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I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

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

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And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

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We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

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The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

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