Freidrich Nietzsche Quotes A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Faith: not wanting to know what is true. God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. That which does not kill us makes us stronger. The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. "I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the Superman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment..."