What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
Friedrich NietzscheHow poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
Friedrich NietzschePeople press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.
Friedrich NietzscheThere is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
Friedrich NietzscheTo die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.
Friedrich Nietzsche