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“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil

Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches — and in punishment there is so much that is festive!”

Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality

Essay 2, Section 6
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Variant: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession…”

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science (1882)

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“No artist tolerates reality.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?… that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are terrible people who, instead of solving a problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit at all.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am no man, I am dynamite.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo

Source: Ecce Homo

“.— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

Source: Human, All Too Human

“Some are born posthumously.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Einige werden posthum geboren.
Foreword
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ

“no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human

I.597
Human, All Too Human (1878)
Context: No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

“Convictions are prisons.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy/Seventy-five Aphorisms/The Anti-Christ