God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. The Gay Science (1882). Sec. 125 Nietzsche Quotes The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is...
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Friedrich Nietzsche 9. “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? Wh...
Nietzsche was critical ofreligionin general, though especiallyChristianity, which he described as the "religion of pity."[2]Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for his declaration that “God is dead,” which suggests that since Christian morality views worldly pleasures as immoral, to accept Christianit...
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Colorized and enhanced image ©The Nietzsche Channel. Basel, October 22, 1875: Letter to Paul Rée. Dear Doctor, I had too much pleasure from your psychological observations for me to take quite seriously your Dead Man-Incognito ("posthumous writings").1I recently found your work while rumma...
is the triumph of nihilism: “God is dead.” Nietzsche thought, however, that most people could not accept the eclipse of the ascetic ideal and theintrinsicmeaninglessness of existence but would seek supplanting absolutes to invest life with meaning. He thought the emergingnationalismof his day ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deep