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In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

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

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There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.

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The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been 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...more

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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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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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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

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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...more