In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage
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Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that c...
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
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It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play o...
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
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A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance,...
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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
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Dante, I think, committed a crude blunder when, with a terror-inspiring ingenuity, he placed above the gateway of his hell the inscription, 'I too was...
