Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche More Quotes From Friedrich Nietzsche The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i. Friedrich Nietzsche things-in-life attitude order 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 logical-reasoning atheism religion "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that? Friedrich Nietzsche soul children religion God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think! Friedrich Nietzsche answers religion thinking Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none. Friedrich Nietzsche real moving religion Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Friedrich Nietzsche vulgarity-is inability pieces What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent Friedrich Nietzsche unintelligent We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche be-careful throwing devil Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while. Friedrich Nietzsche creatures sea forests Sleep is no mean art. Friedrich Nietzsche sleep mean art Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. Friedrich Nietzsche music voice air When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything. Friedrich Nietzsche endure submit men Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso. Friedrich Nietzsche ideals In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment. Friedrich Nietzsche air song men Good prose is written only face to face with poetry. Friedrich Nietzsche prose written faces Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. Friedrich Nietzsche hangman metaphysics christianity Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. Friedrich Nietzsche dog animal men From people who merely pray we must become people who bless. Friedrich Nietzsche bless praying people At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory. Friedrich Nietzsche misunderstood victory race That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas. Friedrich Nietzsche europe drama country
