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God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

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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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The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

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Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth...more

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? Wha...more

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The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

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Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers purely imaginary causes ("God" "soul," "ego," "spi...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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Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the world has caused more suffering than the follies ...more

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Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phanto...more