Nice Quotes #74: Friedrich Nietzsche


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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Friedrich Nietzsche


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All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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

That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.

All I need is a sheet of paper
and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world upside down.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.

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

Art is the proper task of life.