5 quotes
The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)
There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my "evil eye" for this world, which is also my "evil ear."
Twilight of the Idols : or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888)
Even that Dionysus is a philosopher, and that gods, too, thus philosophy, seems to me a novelty that is far from innocuous and might arouse suspicion precisely among philosophers.
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
All that philosophers have handled for millennia, were conceptual mummies; there was nothing real to life from their hands. They kill, they fill out that these gentlemen term, idolaters, when they worship — they are all dangerous when they worship.
Twilight of the Idols : or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (1888)
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught which did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.