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Religious Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!
- The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed
- A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
- Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
- 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,…
- In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
- People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to…
- Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
- Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
- After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
- Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
- Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves…
- The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of…
- Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder ofa religionreligions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash…
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