Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the...

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this....

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this....

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my...

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even...

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even...

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains...

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains...

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be...

When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be...

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and...

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and...

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the...

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the...

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly,...

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly,...

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to...

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to...

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.