Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, 12 October 2024
The Antichrist was written in 1888, but it's publication was delayed until 1895 due to the controversial content. The preface begins 'This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive.'
Some are born posthumously.
The Antichrist (1888). Foreword
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 2
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...to the priestly class - decadence is no more than a means to an end. Men of this sort have a vital interest in making mankind sick, and in confusing the values of "good" and "bad," "true" and "false" in a manner that is not only dangerous to life, but also slanders it.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 24
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The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding - in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 39
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Christianity is called the religion of pity.
The Antichrist, Section 7
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As an artistic triumph in psychological corruption... the Gospels, in fact, stand alone ... Here we are among Jews: this is the first thing to be borne in mind if we are not to lose the thread of the matter. This positive genius for conjuring up a delusion of personal "holiness" unmatched anywhere else, either in books or by men; this elevation of fraud in word and attitude to the level of an art - all this is not an accident due to the chance talents of an individual, or to any violation of nature. The thing responsible is race.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 44
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The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who "reduced to absurdity" "the wisdom of this world" (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 47
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Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 48
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That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 51
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"Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 52
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.
The Antichrist (1888). Sec. 62
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Some are born posthumously.
Foreword, The Antichrist
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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
Sec. 23, The Antichrist
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"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."
The Antichrist (1888)
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
The Antichrist
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Saturday, 12 October 2024If the Christian dogmas of a revengeful God, universal sinfulness, election by divine grace and the danger of eternal damnation were true, it would be a sign of weak-mindedness and lack of character not to become a priest, apostle or hermit and, in fear and trembling, to work solely on one's own salvation; it would be senseless to lose sight of one's eternal advantage for the sake of temporal comfort. If we may assume that these things are at any rate believed true, then the everyday Christian cuts a miserable figure; he is a man who really cannot count to three, and who precisely on account of his spiritual imbecility does not deserve to be punished so harshly as Christianity promises to punish him.Human, all too Human, p. 116, RJ Hollingdale transl.
