I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
Friedrich NietzscheLife, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
Friedrich NietzscheStyle ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.
Friedrich NietzscheSo long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
Friedrich NietzscheIf God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
Friedrich NietzscheWhat makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Friedrich NietzscheThe priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.
Friedrich Nietzsche