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
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.
The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself.
Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.
One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.
Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.