Friedrich Nietzsche

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

Man has been educated by woman. It is woman who has spoiled him.

I fear that old women will always be more skeptical than old men.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that a resistance is overcome.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated into vice.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer.

The greatest event of recent times — that 'God is dead,' that the belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable — is already beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.

I am not a man, I am dynamite.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The democratic movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement.

Every elevation of the type 'man,' has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society — and so it will always be.

The weak and the ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so.

What is noble? To be able to be alone.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad, has made the world ugly and bad.

Woman was God's second mistake.

Wherever a temple is built, there the temple of man is not built.

One must pay dearly for immortality: one has to die several times while one is still alive.