Friedrich Nietzsche:

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to cleanse ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

— Friedrich Nietzsche Modern

God is dead, existentialism

Context

The Gay Science, Book III, Section 125

Date / Period

1882

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51704/51704-h/51704-h.htm

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