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The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding—at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
The Antichrist (1895)
The "Kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart — not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death".
The Antichrist (1888)
The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.
The Antichrist (1895)
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
The Antichrist (1888)
That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
The Antichrist (1888)
The "kingdom of God" is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come "in a thousand years" — it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere...
The Antichrist (1888)
What is good? — All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness.
What is happiness? — The feeling that power increases — that a resistance is overcome.
The Antichrist (1895)
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.
The Antichrist (1895)
Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulus to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it — so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.
The Antichrist (1888)