Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Authority

• The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Voice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.168, 谷月社

• 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

• We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Blessed, Apology

• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Vices, Virtue

• Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Example, Authority

• The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Destiny, Men

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