A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche familyhappinesslove Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche castsbe-carefuldemon One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. Friedrich Nietzsche beyond-good-and-evilone-lovedesire Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. Friedrich Nietzsche strengthdesirelife To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Friedrich Nietzsche eyesidesfirsts A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. Friedrich Nietzsche immoralmoralitymoral My genius is in my nostrils. Friedrich Nietzsche genius But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world. Friedrich Nietzsche new-beginningsbrotherchildren Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal. Friedrich Nietzsche equaldemocracymen Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. Friedrich Nietzsche punishmentresistanceconsciousness The doer alone learneth. Friedrich Nietzsche doerseducation God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Friedrich Nietzsche freethinkercrookedthinking Fear is the mother of morality. Friedrich Nietzsche moralitymotherfear Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche passioninspirationallife In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. Friedrich Nietzsche womenrevengelove Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? Friedrich Nietzsche evilmonsters However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself. Friedrich Nietzsche bearsfeelingsmay All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". Friedrich Nietzsche crimeessentialsspirit Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Friedrich Nietzsche hopemenreality There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche crushlovelife
