Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.
Friedrich NietzscheIt was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
Friedrich NietzscheThe consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
Friedrich NietzscheBut eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?
Friedrich Nietzsche