Friedrich Nietzsche (English)

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” -Nietzsche

"All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."" - On the Genealogy of Morality

"That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this." - The Antichrist

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment." - Ecce Homo

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world." - The Antichrist

"'Faith' means not wanting to know." - The Antichrist

“You dislike him and present many grounds for this dislike - but I believe only in your dislike, not in your grounds! You flatter yourself in your own eyes when you suggest to yourself and to me that what has happened through instinct is the result of a process of reasoning.” - Daybreak

“What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.” - Daybreak

"For thousands of years, a deep, suspicious fear of an incurable pessimism has forced people to cling to a religious interpretation of existence." - Beyond Good and Evil

"It is painful and difficult for the ear to hear something new; we are bad at listening to strange music." - Beyond Good and Evil

"We have to follow our instincts, but convince our reason to lend them a helping hand with good arguments." - Beyond Good and Evil

"Happiness and virtue cannot be used as arguments. But we like to forget, even the thoughtful spirits among us, that whatever makes us unhappy or evil can no more be used as a counter-argument. Something might be true, even if it were also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction." - Beyond Good and Evil

"The economy of the spirit does indeed occasionally require transitional orders of ideas; thus the passage from religion to a scientific mode of thought is a violent and perilous leap, something to be advised against." - Human, All Too Human

"Christianity has been the most disastrous form of human presumption yet." - Beyond Good and Evil

“Moral judgment has this in common with the religious one: that it believes in realities which are not real.” - Twilight of the Idols

"All those moral codes that are addressed to individuals, aimed at their so-called 'happiness' - what are they but behavioural guides in relation to the degree of precariousness that the individual feels about himself; recipes to counter his passions, his good and bad tendencies, if he possesses the will to power and would like to play the master; large or small tidbits of shrewdness and affection, infected with the musty smell of old home remedies and old wives' tales." - Beyond Good and Evil

“‘This – is now my way: where is yours?’ Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way’. For the way – does not exist!” - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"We no longer love our knowledge enough, once we have communicated it." - Beyond Good and Evil

"We use our basic principles to tyrannise or justify or honour or scold or conceal our habits - two people with the same basic principles probably intend something basically different by them." - Beyond Good and Evil

"Left to ourselves, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: this is how we relax from our fellow man." - Beyond Good and Evil