Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

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

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

I love learning about different religions, and discovering the different ways to worship, and to love the greatness and the higher being that surrounds us all. I definitely believe in a bigger presence, and I really respect all religions; at their core they all teach the same message – community and kindness and looking out for each other.

We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

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.

[on enlightenment] Body and mind dropped off.

What you possess, you lose.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

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