Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschewas a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 October 1844
CityRocken, Germany
CountryGermany
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 or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
The last Christian died on a cross.
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.