Top 55 Friedrich Nietzsche Religion Quotes
#1. Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. 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 this reflection.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. 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, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#27. "God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#32. I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Religion has debased the concept "man"; its ultimate consequence is that everything good, great, true is superhuman and bestowed only through an act of grace -
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion
religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#46. All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. 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 demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
