The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
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About Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Faith — Reflections on belief, spirituality, and trust in the unseen