A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche successhappinesslife . . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism! Friedrich Nietzsche sacrificesonjesus For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Friedrich Nietzsche hard-timesrocksfrustration A life without music is an error. Friedrich Nietzsche life-without-musicmusic-iserrors Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold. Friedrich Nietzsche destinygoldgiving When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. Friedrich Nietzsche mindtogethermen We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. Friedrich Nietzsche equalhatelong Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible? Friedrich Nietzsche painweathermen ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. Friedrich Nietzsche swallowingmonstersrose All great men are play actors of their own ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche heroplaymen Faith: not wanting to know what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche atheistreligiousfaith The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. Friedrich Nietzsche inspirationalmenfunny Man is the cruelest animal. Friedrich Nietzsche philosophicalanimalmen The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.". Friedrich Nietzsche doedesiremen Some men are born posthumously. Friedrich Nietzsche bornmen We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche musicdancingdance There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche absolute-trutheternalfacts What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done. Friedrich Nietzsche donechristianityjesus He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. Friedrich Nietzsche familylovelife It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation. Friedrich Nietzsche mindmayworld
