Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Historical Quotes

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

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The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

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He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

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There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.

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A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

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Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

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It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

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When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

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Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

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The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

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Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them

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One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

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