Atheism Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Atheism and a kind of _second innocence_ belong together.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life:…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was it not part of the secret black art of truly grand politics of revenge, of a farseeing, subterranean, slowly advancing, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche