Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Religion
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
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Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
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They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
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Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
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It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?
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Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
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Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
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Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
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I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
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God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.
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In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
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A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
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