"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...

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.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~












The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the r...
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