Bible Quote by René Girard

“Though the favourites of the gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of gods." - Friedrich Nietzsche”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the “dualistic fiction,” which, as Nietzsche wrote in The…

— Alain de Benoist

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“This text is a dramatic battlefield. Nietzsche tries to argue for rejecting the Crucifixion in general terms, referring to the stupidity of all persecutors…

— Giuseppe Fornari

“God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist," remarked Voltaire after a natural disaster that killed many people. Nietzsche loved this quote and wished…

— Voltaire

“Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.”

— Joseph Campbell

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

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

— N.D. Wilson

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

“I stumbled upon Friedrich Nietzsche when I was 17, following the usual trail of existential candies—Camus, Sartre, Beckett—that unsuspecting teenagers find in the woods.…

— Gary Kamiya

“. . . [Nietzsche] had the good manners to despise Christianity, in large part, for what it actually was--above all, for its devotion to…

— David Bentley Hart