Friedrich Nietzsche on Atheism
1844–1900 Germany
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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
Untimely Meditations (1876)
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: “Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes.
About God and Religion:
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
You see what it was that really triumphed over the Christian God: Christian morality itself, the concept of truthfulness that was understood more rigorously, the father confessor’s refinement of the Christian conscience, translated and sublimated into a scientific conscience, into intellectual cleanliness at any price.
The Gay Science (1882)