Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Guilt

• . . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Son, Sacrifice

• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.41, Courier Corporation

• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Guilt, Shame, Guilty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.44, Courier Corporation

• The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, People, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Judging, Guilt, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

• We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Guilt, Doe, Forget

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