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Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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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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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without...more

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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,...more

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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hat...more

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What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest...more

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New struggles. -- After Buddha was dead, they still showed his shadow in a cave for centuries -- a colossal, horrible shadow. God is dead, but given t...more

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Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of vir...more

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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a ki...more

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The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of...more

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If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness – one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity....more