"There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing."
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"Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part of mankind is capable of such despair. Christianity lies in wait for such as those and pursues them"
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"The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion."
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"Christianity is called the religion of pity."
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"The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."
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""God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!"
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"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."
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"It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war."
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"What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?"
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"As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness."
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"I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food."
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"What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless."
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"The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out."
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"Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them."
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"The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer."
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"One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?"
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"It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!"
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"Sleep is no mean art."
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"Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while."
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"What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors."
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