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Full Idea
The concept 'God' represents a turning away from life, a critique of life, even a contempt for it.
Gist of Idea
The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §141)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.91
A Reaction
Clearly Nietzsche has the same view of Platonism, and any view which aspires to 'higher' things, and views humans as being potentially divine (even Aristotle's dream of pure 'contemplation').
| 8148 | Brahma, supreme god and protector of the universe, arose from the ocean of existence [Anon (Upan)] |
| 7343 | Beside me there is no God [Isaiah] |
| 7994 | Everything, including the gods, comes from me, says Krishna [Anon (Bhag)] |
| 22726 | When things were unified, Mind set them in order [Anaxagoras] |
| 2629 | Anaxagoras was the first to say that the universe is directed by an intelligence [Anaxagoras, by Cicero] |
| 6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |
| 7835 | The key question for Spinoza is: is his God really a God? [Stewart,M on Spinoza] |
| 23031 | God is the ideal end of the mature mind's final development [Green,TH] |
| 4497 | The concept of 'God' represents a turning away from life, and a critique of life [Nietzsche] |