Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche has many criticisms of Jesus and Christianity, even going so far as to style himself as The Anti-Christ. In Human, All Too Human, and Twilight of the Idols for example, Nietzsche accuses the Church' and Jesus's teachings as being anti-natural in their treatment of passions, in particularly sexuality; "There it is said, for example, with particular reference to sexuality: "If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out." Fortunately, no Christian acts in accordance with this precept... the Christian who follows that advice and believes he has killed his sensuality is deceiving himself: it lives on in an uncanny vampire form and torments in repulsive disguises."
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Famous quotes by friedrich nietzsche:
“You have overcome yourself: but why do you show yourself to me only as the one overcome? I want to see the victor: cast roses into the abyss and say, ‘Here is my thanks to the monster, because it didn’t know how to swallow me!’”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits—inasmuch as these two species always exist—occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“What do you regard as most humane?—To spare someone shame.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Have you not 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!’”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)