"What distinguishes us [scientists] from the pious and the believers is not
the quality but the quantity of belief and piety; we are contented with
less. But if the former should challenge us: then be contented and appear to
be contented! - then we might easily reply: 'We are, indeed, not among the
least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear
to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief
than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written
on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority
of that book... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity
have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defence plea you
inscribe your own bill of indictment. "
-Daybreak, Nietzche
3 comments:
Nice title .. :)
Just started Thus spake Zarathustra .. n i am wondering y i never picked Nietzsche up before?
Thank you :)
Well, the vantage point that you have is you would understand him better, now that you've seen and experienced a lot yourself.
Though Nietzche recommended his readers to pick up Zarathustra at the very end, after going through his other oeuvres, particularly genealogy of morals, wagner case, antichrist and human, all too human, in order to understand his "superhuman" protagonist Zarathustra better; that being his most profound work according to him.
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