Who said what and what matters

Did Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) – a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist – utter the quote shown below?

God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.

How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all

murderers?

No ... he did not speak English. Instead, he wrote the following passage:

Gott ist todt! Gott bleibt todt! Und wir haben ihn

getödtet! Wie trösten wir uns, die Mörder aller Mörder?

Not surprisingly (at least for those familiar with translation), those

German words can be read differently ... perhaps something like this:

The supreme idol is death! The supreme idol remains

death! And we embrace it by killing! How to console us,

we who are killers ... all killers?

It is quite different from the traditional variant and sounds a little    

all-too-curiously like the sort of thing many a teenage Vegan has

shouted at one time or another (and Nietzsche, himself, is known to

have wrestled with Vegetarianism in his life). Not that it matters (in

some respects) – amusing, poignant or misdirection, the next moment

awaits and what we make of it relies (in part) on our own endeavours.

As Layman Pang (龐居士 ["big Ge-Se" {or "the huge retired scholar"}] – said to have been a Buddhist who lived in the  8th Century CE – might have spoken:

槃水用並神

柴及運妙通

Many would be familiar with the popular paraphrasing of that, namely:

My supernatural powers? Carrying water and cutting

wood.

That, of course, is fine and quite grounded, but the Chinese may also be

read as follows:

Mind, expression or the sublime are common sense and

profound, exquisite or ingenious – therefore, carrying

water, fortune or what is good or beautiful extends or

reaches the territory that is defended or cut off.

Cue ‘the next moment’.