Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

Those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, ‘How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

The ordinary mind is the way.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.

The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.