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“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that a person who so needs the surface must once have made an unfortunate grab underneath it. Perhaps these burnt children, the born artists who find their only joy in trying to falsify life's images (as if taking protracted revenge against it-), perhaps they may even belong to a hierarchy: we could tell the degree to which they are sick of life by how much they wish to see its image adulterated, diluted, transcendentalized, apotheosized- we could count the homines religiosi among the artists, as their highest class.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“A time came when one rubbed one's eyes; one is still rubbing them today.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - A Modern Reader’s Edition of Nietzsche’s Classic Work

“Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling