God Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Doubt as sin. — 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 — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.”

“Your educators can only be your liberators.”

“We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,’ an increase in our ‘waste.”

“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

“As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.”

“I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.”

“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.”

“Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man - man, who God created in his own image - man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbour - man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts - what is his first cry when he hears his fellowman is saved? A blasphemy. Honour to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation!”

“Walaupun bukan penganut agama Katolik, kusertai anakku membakar lilin di depan patung Bunda Maria dan Santo Petrus. Dalam hati kumohon Tuhan memberikan semua yang terbaik bagi anak bungsuku. Sebenarnya aku tidak memerlukan patung atau lilin guna menyertai doaku. Setiap saat setiap waktu, begitu teringat kepada kebesaran Tuhanm aku langsung menyebut namaNya sambil mengatakan doa maupun permohonan. "Tuhan itu pemilik semesta alam!" kata ibuku. "Dia mengerti semua bahasa di dunia. Tanpa kauucapkan pun, Dia mengetahui isi batinmu.”