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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Funny, Faith, Witty
"The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

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Love, Inspirational, Feelings
Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.203, Vintage

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Years, Yesterday
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

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Love, Healthy, Needs
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.187, Penguin

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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Hope, Reality, Men
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.53, Courier Corporation

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspirational, Stars, Climbs

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

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Blessed, Littles, Poverty
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.57, e-artnow

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Animal, Mind, Age
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

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Thinking, Contemplation, Questionable

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Faces, Idealism, Falsehood
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Essential Nietzsche”, p.167, Courier Corporation

For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Degrees, Needs
Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Problem, Cry, Scream

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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Christian, Philosophical, Christ On The Cross
The Antichrist aphorism 39 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Eye, Firsts, Sides
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Simple, People, Soul
Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

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Thoughtful, Thinking, Links

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge, Self, Evil

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche
War, Enemy, Weapons

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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People, Tasks, Talent

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality, Moral, Immoral

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

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Apes, Speak, Found
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.293, Penguin

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

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Healing, Flames, Mountain
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Rose, Monsters, Swallowing

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering, Pity, Contagious
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.349, Penguin

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