The Gay Science
One of the more notable out of the "Death of God" philosophers was the German philosopher and proto-existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche, who was largely responsible for bringing the phrase "God is Dead" () into public consciousness. This phrase first appears in "The Gay Science" (), in sections 108 (New Struggles), 125 (The Madman), and for a third time in section 343 (The Meaning of our Cheerfulness). It is also found in Nietzsche's work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (German: "Also sprach Zarathustra"), which is most responsible for popularizing the phrase. The idea is stated in "The Madman" as follows: