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The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Serious, Nonsense, Parody

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, Want, Taste
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.117, Penguin

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Friedrich Nietzsche
God, Men, Needs
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Lying, Men, Light
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Superstitions, Belief, Sin

I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Loyalty, Vanity, Giving

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage, Cohabitation, Has Beens
"Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 123, 1886.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheist, Voice, Judging
"The Will to Power".

The universe without music would be madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Would Be, Madness, Without Music

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality, Blood, Practice

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Water, Risk

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Light, Depth, Speak
"The Portable Nietzsche".

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Powerful, Men, Noble Man
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Tone, Opinion, Reason
Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Interpretation
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Support, Littles
Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Antichrist (上帝之死)”, p.540, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

Friedrich Nietzsche
Girl, Brave, Touching
Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Independent, Long, Substance
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.422, Courier Corporation

When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Evil, Enemy, Add

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Criticism, Praise, Reproach
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Idols, Smell, Mad
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.105, Penguin

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pride, Sublime, Development
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock (2001). “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Thinking, Boredom

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pain, Men, Suffering

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Dance, Light

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