"\"God is dead\" (German: About this sound \"Gott ist tot\" ; also known as the death of God) is a widely quoted statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It first appears in Nietzsche's 1882 collection The Gay Science also translated as \"The science of joy\" German: Die fr\u00F6hliche Wissenschaft), in sections 108 (New Struggles), 125 (The Madman), and for a third time in section 343 (The Meaning of our Cheerfulness)."@en .