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Single Idea 18298
[filed under theme 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Full Idea
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Therefore there are no gods. ...For what would there be to create if gods - existed!
Gist of Idea
There can't be gods, because that leaves us nothing to create!
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 2.02)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.110
A Reaction
[Zarathustra says this, not Nietzsche!]
The
23 ideas
from 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'
18286
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The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue
[Nietzsche]
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18287
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People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden
[Nietzsche]
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18288
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Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying
[Nietzsche]
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18290
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But what is the reasoning of the body, that it requires the wisdom you seek?
[Nietzsche]
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18289
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Forget the word 'I'; 'I' is performed by the intelligence of your body
[Nietzsche]
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18291
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Virtues can destroy one another, through jealousy
[Nietzsche]
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18292
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I can only believe in a God who can dance
[Nietzsche]
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18293
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The noble man wants new virtues; the good man preserves what is old
[Nietzsche]
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18294
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The state coldly claims that it is the people, but that is a lie
[Nietzsche]
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18295
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If you want friends, you must be a fighter
[Nietzsche]
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18296
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An enduring people needs its own individual values
[Nietzsche]
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18297
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We created meanings, to maintain ourselves
[Nietzsche]
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18298
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There can't be gods, because that leaves us nothing to create!
[Nietzsche]
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18299
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The will is constantly frustrated by the past
[Nietzsche]
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18300
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Whenever we have seen suffering, we have wanted the revenge of punishment
[Nietzsche]
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18301
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We only really love children and work
[Nietzsche]
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18302
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Man and woman are deeply strange to one another!
[Nietzsche]
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18303
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Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
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18304
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Saints want to live as they desire, or not to live at all
[Nietzsche]
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18305
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To love truth, you must know how to lie
[Nietzsche]
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18306
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We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth
[Nietzsche]
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18307
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I want my work, not happiness!
[Nietzsche]
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20757
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The powerful self behind your thoughts and feelings is your body
[Nietzsche]
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