Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.

It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

What was never lost can never be found.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir – a constant source of energy, determination and kindness.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold & dung. Before you learn it, it’s like gold; after you learn it, it’s like dung.

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