Friedrich
Nietzsche (1844—1900)
Quotes
That which does
not kill us makes us stronger.
He who fights
with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze
for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
He who has a why
to live can bear almost any how.
NietzscheNietzsche
was a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic. His writings on truth,
morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power,
consciousness, and the meaning of existence have exerted an enormous influence
on Western philosophy and intellectual history.
Christianity's
Origin
Christianity was
from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust
with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in
"another" or "better" life.- from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
Christianity as
antiquity. -- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we
ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a presumed; Jew???, crucified
two thousand years ago, who said he was God's son? The proof of such a claim is
lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our
times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas
one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most
ancient piece of this heritage. A god who begets children with a mortal woman;
a sage who bids men work no more, have no more courts, but look for the signs
of the impending end of the world; a justice that accepts the innocent as a
vicarious sacrifice; someone who orders his disciples to drink his blood;
prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god, atoned
for by a god; fear of a beyond to which death is the portal; the form of the
cross as a symbol in a time that no longer knows the function and ignominy of
the cross -- how ghoulishly all this touches us, as if from the tomb of a
primeval past! Can one believe that such things are still believed?
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