Religion Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is the path of least resistance.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What is heavy? so asks the spirit that would bear much, and then kneels down like the camel, and wants to be…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“...wherever the strength of a faith steps decisively into the foreground, we infer a certain weakness in its ability to demonstrate its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here he seeks out his last master: he wants to fight him and his last god; for ultimate victory he wants to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As long as a man knows very well the strength and weaknesses of his teaching, his art, his religion, its power is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We aeronauts of the spirit! All those brave birds which fly out into the distance, into the farthest distance – it is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spirit,"…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How each sex has its own prejudice about love — Despite all the concessions that I am willing to make to the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche