if God in the sense of the Christian god has disappeared from his authoritative position in the suprasensory world, then this authoritative place itself is still always preserved, even thought as that which has become empty. The now-empty authoritative realm of the suprasensory and the ideal world can still be adhered to. What is more, the empty place demands to be occupied anew and to have the god now vanished from it replaced by something else. New ideals are set up. That happens, according to Nietzsche's conception...through doctrines regarding world happiness, through socialism, and equally through Wagnerian music, i.e., everywhere where 'dogmatic Christendom' has 'become bankrupt.' Thus does 'incomplete nihilism' come to prevail. Nietzsche says about the latter: 'Incomplete nihilism: its forms: we live in the midst of it. Attempts to escape nihilism without revaluing our values so far: they produce the opposite, make the problem more acute' (Will to Power, Aph. 28). We can grasp Nietzsche's thoughts on incomplete nihilism more explicitly and exactly by saying: Incomplete nihilism does indeed replace the former values with others, but it still posits the latter always in the old position of authority that is, as it were, gratuitously maintained as the ideal realm of the suprasensory. Completed nihilism, however, must in addition do away even with the place of value itself, with the suprasensory as a realm, and accordingly must posit and revalue values differently.
Martin Heidegger, “The Word of Nietzsche: ‘God is Dead’“ from The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, pg. 69