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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Lying, Religion

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religious, Solitude, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.251, Modern Library

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
Religion, Devil, Saint
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

"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
Children, Soul, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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
Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

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
Justice, Judging, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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
Real, Moving, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.73, Xist Publishing

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Song, Religion, Looks
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.129, Penguin

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe, Religion, Followers

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
School, Religion, Important
Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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
Religious, People, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.76, Courier Corporation

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Thinking, Religion
'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 130

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Climbing, Two, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, God Exists, Lure
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Fashion, Book, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.49, 谷月社

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth, Long, Religion

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Power, Religion, World

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Religion, Atheism, Excuse

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Jesus, Religion, Age

Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christian, Religion, Looks
Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.223, Friedrich Nietzsche

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Friedrich Nietzsche
Heart, Religion, Earth
Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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
Men, People, Religion

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
Religious, Men, Religion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1964). “Complete Works: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation”

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