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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] |