Friedrich Nietzsche BIO » 12 sources by this author »(October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900), was a German philosopher. He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style, and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has fallen into numerous interpretations, a reversal of Platonism, and a repudiation of Christianity as it was in the 19th century.
hide There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways of reason.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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…
The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Your pride can't hurt me — I have no beliefs!
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time — in the form of legislation, religions, and customs.
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
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 immortal blemish of mankind.
The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish.
