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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be ...more

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Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty a...more

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want me...more

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The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of sk...more

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

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Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

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Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belie...more

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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e.

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To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them.

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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

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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