The Antichrist

The Antichrist (1895)

by Friedrich Nietzsche

• "What is good? — All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
  What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness.
  What is happiness? — The feeling that power increases — that a resistance is overcome."
  • Source: Aphorism 2

• "The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so."
  • Source: Aphorism 2

• "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."
  • Source: Aphorism 6

• "Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection."
  • Source: Aphorism 7.

• "The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding--at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."
  • Aphorism 39.
  • Note: Often misquoted as "The last Christian died on the cross"
  • Source: PublicAppeal.org