Friedrich Nietzsche

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.”

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”

“Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, see...”

“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the g...”

“The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I do not have enough talent'. One...”

“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

“There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.”

“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”

“However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for th...”

“The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.”

“As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny propo...”

“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”

“It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no...”

“A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels o...”

“What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!”

“O puro espírito é pura mentira. Enquanto o padre continuar a passar por ser uma espécie superior - o padre, esse negador, esse caluniador, esse envenenador da vida por profissão - , não há r...”