Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Christianity

• In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Fear, Reality

  "The Antichrist". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 16, 1888.

• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Drinking, Two

  The Twilight of the Idols

• I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Mean, Race

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

• Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

• It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heartfelt, Essentials, Firsts

• I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Religious, Integrity

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

• In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Philosophical, Christ On The Cross

  The Antichrist aphorism 39 (1888) (translation by Walter Kaufmann)

• The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Self Confidence, Pride

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.36, e-artnow

• But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Two, People

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1968). “The portable Nietzsche: selected and translated, with an introd., pref. and notes”, Viking Pr

• If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Islam, Assuming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.96, Friederich Nietzsche

• Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humanity, Christianity, Antichrist

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

• 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

• The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Friday, Atheist

• One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Christianity, Morbid

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Common (2004). “Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist”, p.119, Courier Corporation

• The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Sensual, Triumph

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Duncan Large (2008). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.22, Oxford University Press

• Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Poison, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

• Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Nausea, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.23, Modern Library

• It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taste, Christianity, Reason

• What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Done, Christianity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.177, Vintage

• For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Buddhism, Two, Differences

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2005). “The Anti-Christ”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

• When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Son, Sunday

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

• When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Giving Up, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.58, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Air, Church

• There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, People, Want

• Christianity is religion for the executioner.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christianity, Executioners

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

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