2007-01-16 07:18:53 · 9 answers · asked by Lady C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Here's the exact quote - found at the source below.
"Do you understood, O my brothers? Are you terrified? Do your hearts fail? Does the abyss yawn before you? Does the very hound of Hell bay at you? So be it! God is dead; now we desire that the superman shall live."
2007-01-16 07:30:25 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900]. In The Prologue of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by ...http://www.philosophos.com/knowledge_base/new_archives/answers_29.html
2007-01-16 07:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-01-16 07:22:36 · answer #3 · answered by Roy Staiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche
2007-01-16 07:25:31 · answer #4 · answered by sam p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God or the principle of God always exist and yet never exist. The principle of God is the Alpha/Omega - balancing factors. Yin/Yang, existence and non existence. God is here whether we want to believe it or not. When I say God I am not referring to the fictitious God that Man creates every time a civilization rises and falls. Man creates God - and - Man Kills God.
Here it is...
Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
Whither is God," he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him...
Friedrich Nietzsche. The Gay Science (1882), section 126
2007-01-16 07:29:14 · answer #5 · answered by Venom Spartan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche said the first part...
2007-01-16 07:24:34 · answer #6 · answered by lampshade_01 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche was pietzsche.
2007-01-16 07:31:04 · answer #7 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A fool.
2007-01-16 07:28:49 · answer #8 · answered by robert m 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me! lol
2007-01-16 07:43:17 · answer #9 · answered by kittana! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋