Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty – I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Christianity makes suffering contagious.

At the deathbed of Christianity. – Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be […]

Christianity came into existence in order to lighten the heart; but now it has to burden the heart first, in order to lighten it afterward. Consequently it will perish.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.