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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes about Atheism

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Words Of Wisdom, Mind, Atheism

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear, Humanity, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.40, Penguin

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Atheism, Herds
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Words Of Wisdom, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Nausea, Christianity
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.23, Modern Library

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Knowing, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.84, Friederich Nietzsche

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Criteria, Theologian
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Educational, Atheism

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
Logical Reasoning, Religion, Atheism
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear, Giving, Atheism

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Turkeys, Atheism, Priests

The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, Atheism, Excuse

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Gloves, Filth

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Godliness

For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Men, Intellectual, Atheism

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Weapons, Sin
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.56, Friederich Nietzsche

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism, Christianity, Morbid
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Common (2004). “Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist”, p.119, Courier Corporation

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Atheism, Bears

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter, Atheism, Doe
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1996). “The Vision of Nietzsche”, Element Books Limited

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Mean, Soul, Atheism

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