Atheist Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

13 Atheist quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s skepticism toward religion surfaces in a handful of striking lines. These thirteen excerpts reveal his relentless questioning of divine authority and his call for humanity to forge its own values.

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The last Christian died on a cross.

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

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

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If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

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He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess…

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic,…

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers…

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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears,…

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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was…

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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New…

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Carlyle, a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetorician out of necessity, constantly aroused by the craving for a strong faithas…

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

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

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“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.”

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“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.”

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“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything…

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It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

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“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

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