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“The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“The priest knows of only one great danger: that science – the sound comprehension of cause and effect. But science flourishes, on the whole, only under favourable conditions – a man must have time, he must have an overflowing intellect, in order to “know.”…. “Therefore man must be made unhappy” – this been, in all ages, the logic of the priest.

-Friedrich Nietzsche”
― S.T. Joshi, Atheism: A Reader

“Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“The Church combats the passions with excision in every sense of the word: its practice, its ‘cure’ is castration. It never asks: ‘How can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a desire?’ – it has at all times laid the emphasis of its discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of lust for power, of avarice, of revengefulness). – But to attack the passions at their roots means to attack life at its roots: the practice of the Church is hostile to life…”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ

“The harshest daylight, rationality at any cost, life bright, cold, circumspect, conscious, without instinct, in opposition to the instincts, has itself been no more than a form of sickness, another form of sickness – and by no means a way back to ‘virtue’, to ‘health’, to happiness…. To have to combat one’s instincts – that is the formula for décadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one. –”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ

“One has deprived becoming of its innocence if being in this or that state is traced back to will, to intentions, to accountable acts: the doctrine of will has been invented essentially for the purpose of punishment, that is of finding guilty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ

“If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.”
― Murray Bookchin

“Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.”
― Félix Guattari, The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext