The Antichrist

"The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so."

"The very word Christianity is a misunderstanding--at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."

"The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."

"Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection."

"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."

"Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen."

"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."

"What follows, then? That one had better put on gloves before reading the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it very advisable. One would as little choose early Christians for companions as Polish Jews: not that one need seek out an objection to them — neither has a pleasant smell."

"God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment — but many other things ceased as well! Woman was Gods second mistake."

"Nihilist und Christ: das reimt sich, das reimt sich nicht bloss."

"The whole disaster was only made possible by the fact that there already existed in the world a similar megalomania, allied to this one in race, to wit, the Jewish."

"I call an animal, a species, an individual depraved when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers what is harmful to it."