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“In place of the clear and rigid ancient law, You [oh Lord] made man decide about good and evil for himself, with no other guidance than Your example. But did it never occur to You that man would disregard Your example, even question it, as well as Your truth, when he was subjected to so fearful a burden as freedom of choice?”
― The Grand Inquisitor
― The Grand Inquisitor
“There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he shall soonest find a new object or idea to worship.”
― The Grand Inquisitor
― The Grand Inquisitor
“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
― Beyond Good and Evil
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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