In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism sin weapons One does not kill by anger but by laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism laughter doe One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable. Friedrich Nietzsche filth gloves atheism Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself. Friedrich Nietzsche practice blood reality Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism knowing mean Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd. Friedrich Nietzsche herds atheism christian One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it. Friedrich Nietzsche morbid atheism christianity The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself. Friedrich Nietzsche atheism soul mean Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Friedrich Nietzsche exaggeration poetry want What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it. Friedrich Nietzsche thoughtful philosophical thinking Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel. Friedrich Nietzsche holiness holy war In war personal revenge maintains its silence. Friedrich Nietzsche silence revenge war Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people. Friedrich Nietzsche religious hands people Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods. Friedrich Nietzsche enmity men religion Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty. Friedrich Nietzsche modesty women beauty Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche thoughtful loud-voices thinking We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words. Friedrich Nietzsche thoughtful language thinking The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. Friedrich Nietzsche sage flames wisdom To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so. Friedrich Nietzsche wisdom wise running Man is at his furthest remove from the animal as a child, his intellect most human. With his fifteenth year and puberty he comes astep closer to the animal; with the sense of possessions of his thirties (the median line between laziness and greediness), still another step. In his sixtieth year of life he frequently loses his modesty as well, then the septuagenarian steps up to us as a completely unmasked beast: one need only look at the eyes and the teeth. Friedrich Nietzsche eye men children
