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“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.”
― The Fall
― 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.”
― The Fall
― 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”
― Atheism: A Reader
-Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Atheism: A Reader
“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. –”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
“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…”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
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