God Quotes
To live alone one must be a beast or a God, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God-the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom.
The modern scientific counterpart to belief in God is the belief in the universe as an organism: this disgusts me. This is to make what is quite rare and extremely derivative, the organic, which we perceive only on the surface of the earth, into something essential, universal, and eternal! This is still an anthropomorphizing of nature!
Now dare to be tragic men, for you will be redeemed. You shall join the Dionysiac procession from India to Greece! Gird yourselves for a hard battle, but have faith in the miracles of your God!
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.
The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who reduced to absurdity the wisdom of this world (especially the two great enemies of superstition, philology and medicine), is in truth only an indication of Paul's resolute determination to accomplish that very thing himself: to give one's own will the name of God, Torah - that is essentially Jewish.
The Fascist State has never tried to create its own God, as at one moment Robespierre and the wildest extremists of the Convention tried to do; nor does it vainly seek to obliterate religion from the hearts of men as does Bolshevism: Fascism respects the God of the ascetics, of the saints, of the heroes, and also God as seen and prayed to by the simple and primitive heart of the people.
There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
By your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves.
Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
I have looked into the most philosophical systems and have found none that will not work without God.
I believe, with the Westminster Divines and their predecessors ad Infinitum that Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.
Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service.
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