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Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.



from Nietzsche's The Wanderer and his Shadow

The total character of the world, however, is in all eternity chaos--in the sense not of a lack of necessity but a lack of order, arrangement, form, beauty, wisdom, and whatever names there are for our aesthetic anthropomorphisms...Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful, nor noble, nor does it wish to become any of these things; it does not by any means strive to imitate man... Let us beware of saying that there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is nobody who commands, nobody who obeys, nobody who trespasses... But when will we ever be done with our caution and care? When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds? When will we complete our de-deification of nature? When may we begin to "naturalize" humanity in terms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature?



from Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.



from Nietzsche's The Gay Science

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.



from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!



from Nietzsche's Daybreak

The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. -- In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.



from Nietzsche's Assorted Opinions and Maxims,s. 385