Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.
Friedrich NietzscheAbove all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Friedrich NietzscheYet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?
Friedrich NietzscheLife is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
Friedrich NietzschePeople to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
Friedrich NietzscheI am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche