Friedrich Nietzsche

Sort a kind of early this morning, I was having one of those esoteric talks with my sister. Somewhere in the middle, a Nietzsche quote elbowed it's way into the conversation.

"Religion is the opiate of the masses"

That shit wowed me. Im not completely green on Nietzsche, but I will admit I am nowhere near well versed. This big mustache muthafucka was telling some hidden absolute truth. Im not going to get into the history of the man, I just want to drop some jewles he coined. I encourage research of at least the man's work if not the man as well.

The quotes I am about to pull pertain to the private discussion I had with my sister, not meant to mean but mean too much to not mean all the same if you know what I mean.

• “After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
• "In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."
• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
• "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
• "Man is the cruelest animal."
• "No price is too high to pay for the privalege of owning yourself."
• "To forget one's purpose is the most common form of stupidity."
• "To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intellegence."
• "You need caos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
• "Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
• "Only sick music makes money today."
• "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but hate his friends."
• "In Christianity, neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
• "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

More Nietzsche quotes aonther time.