Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Belief

• I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• No victor believes in chance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Motivational, Believe, Chance

  The Gay Science bk. 3, no. 258 (1882) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Faith, Witty

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

• A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Errors, Matter, Belief

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.226, Modern Library

• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Rights

• [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Sublime, Development

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock (2001). “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

• It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Fear, Roots

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

• I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Faithful

• 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

• "Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Doubt, Belief

• A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

• Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Healing, Miracle

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.131, Courier Corporation

• We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Knowledge, Stupidity

• Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doubt, Belief

• We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Superstitions, Belief, Sin

• 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

• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

• Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Attitude, Believe, Doubt

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

• There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Belief, Ifs

• Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Hypocrisy, Atmosphere

• Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Lazy, Laziness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

• It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Belief, Opinion, Conflict

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

• Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Historical, Doubt

• Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Swimming, Land, Circles

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

• 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

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