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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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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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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neit...more

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No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. T...more

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I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Wh...more

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Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One...more

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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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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented ...more

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A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

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You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, whic...more

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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts w...more

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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