Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, catalogued under Religion, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #190663: "To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher."
Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, entry #177527: "God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment — but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake."
6 Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche on Religion
"To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher."
"God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment — but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake."
"Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god."
"If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed."
"All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward — this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his "soul."
"Grant me, ye gods, but one certainty," runs Parmenides' prayer, "and if it be but a log's breadth on which to lie. on which to ride upon the sea of uncertainty. Take away everything that comes-to-be, everything lush, colorful, blossoming, illusory, everything that charms and is alive. Take all these for yourselves and grant me but the one and only, poor empty certainty."