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“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live dangerously.”
― Nietzche

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!
[N.B. this is obviously a humorous paraphrase]”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

“One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who does not lie does not know what truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was that life? Well then, once more!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sharp and mild, dull and keen,
well known and strange, dirty and clean,
where both the fool and wise are seen:
All this am I, have ever been, -
in me dove, snake and swine convene!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche