I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides. Friedrich Nietzsche eyesidespatience My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously. Friedrich Nietzsche my-timeborntime Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. Friedrich Nietzsche writingbelievethinking Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul. Friedrich Nietzsche dancerdancereal In music the passions enjoy themselves. Friedrich Nietzsche jazzpassionmusic Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Friedrich Nietzsche giving-loverecoverymen 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. Friedrich Nietzsche fatemenmemories The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. Friedrich Nietzsche greatnessfightingtime Pity makes suffering contagious. Friedrich Nietzsche contagiouspitysuffering All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. Friedrich Nietzsche all-timeslavemankind Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. Friedrich Nietzsche honestycynicismsoul A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian. Friedrich Nietzsche pridereligiouschristian What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. Friedrich Nietzsche heroicgoing-outsuffering I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. Friedrich Nietzsche racerevengemean Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty. Friedrich Nietzsche uncertaintymadnesscertainty Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche absolute-truthsymbolsrelation What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore? Friedrich Nietzsche landsealong The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. Friedrich Nietzsche unequivocalmenmean And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that! Friedrich Nietzsche forgivingdonedoe You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence- Friedrich Nietzsche embarrassedwant
