The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
Friedrich NietzscheThe preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
Friedrich NietzscheIt was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
Friedrich NietzscheReally unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead
Friedrich Nietzsche