Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich NietzscheIt seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
Friedrich NietzscheThe better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.
Friedrich NietzscheBooks for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.
Friedrich NietzscheGod 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 Nietzsche