Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Sin

• 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

• . . . 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

• A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Superstitions, Belief, Sin

• Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Today, Sin

• All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Sin, Virtue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

• One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sin

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.269, Modern Library

• All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Real, May

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1931). “The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche”

• To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Religion, Earth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

• Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Weapons, Sin

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.56, Friederich Nietzsche

• It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Firsts, Germs

• It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Cry, Sin

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.8, Booklassic

• A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Spirit, Life Is

• The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Perfect, Literature

• Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Godly, Men

• 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

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