Absence Quote by John Carroll

“Nietzsche- a weak but strongly mustachioed, Lutheran Pastor's son.”

— N.D. Wilson

“Petre's commitment to Roman Catholicism combined with her openness to mental and moral subjectivism formed a rare alchemy among early twentieth-century Catholics. Her exposure…

— Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing.... Nietzsche feared that…

— Mark Edmundson

“Nietzsche, “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Christianity had, in Nietzsche’s account, emerged from the minds of timid slaves in the Roman Empire who had lacked the stomach to climb to…

— Alain de Botton

“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a world that…

— Hermann Broch

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians…

— James Davison Hunter

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

— Karl Jaspers

“Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic…

— Niall Ferguson

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness,…

— H. L. Mencken

Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations…

— Robert Paul Wolff

“Nietzsche’s observation, “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.”

— Erwin Raphael McManus