God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosophical
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: science truth intelligence success failure scientific-process
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosophy religion
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
Friedrich NietzscheSometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich NietzscheToday as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: men humour slavery slaves
What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.
Friedrich NietzscheI love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: past philosophy
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: life happiness sadness judgement reincarnation demons kronofobi
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