Alfreien’s Reviews > The Ego and Its Own > Status Update

“Moral people skimmed off the best tat trom religion, ate it themselves, and are now laving a tough job to get rid of the resulting scrofula.”

Whether a poor fool of the insane asylum is possessed by the fancy that he is God the Father, Emperor of Japan, the Holy Spirit, or whatnot, or whether a citizen in comfortable circumstances conceives that it is his mission to be a good Christian, a faithful Protestant, a loyal citizen, a virtuous man - both these are one and the same "fixed idea."

Take notice how a ‘moral man’ behaves, who today often thinks he is through with God and throws off Christianity as a bygone thing. If you ask him whether he has ever doubted that the copulation of brother and sister is incest, that monogamy is the truth of marriage, that hlial piety is a sacred duty, then a moral shudder will come over him at the conception of one's being allowed to touch his sister as wife also

“The world lies despised at our feet, far beneath us and our heaven, into which its mighty arms are no longer thrust and its stupefying breath does not come.”

Daily experience confirms the truth that the understanding may have renounced a thing many years before the heart has ceased to beat for it.