Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: ‘How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!’ . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form – the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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… art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

Art

Healing

Saving

… hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good – a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! – As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered.

Facts

Littles

Wicked

…If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

Expectations

Fashion

Revenge

…lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion’s heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

Heart

Sweet

Wine

…one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

Clearness

Heard

Speak

…the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

Psychologist

…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

Monsters

Rose

Swallowing

‘God himself cannot exist without wise men’ – Luther said, and was right. But ‘God can exist even less without unwise men’ – that good old Luther did not say.

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Men

Wise

‘He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.’ Thus speaks the herd.

May

Solitude

Speak

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Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

… art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

…If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

…lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion’s heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

…one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

…the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.

‘God himself cannot exist without wise men’ – Luther said, and was right. But ‘God can exist even less without unwise men’ – that good old Luther did not say.

‘He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.’ Thus speaks the herd.

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