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'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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  1. That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mount…
  2. Nihilist und Christ: das reimt sich, das reimt sich nicht bloss.
  3. Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.
  4. Christianity destroyed for us the whole harvest of ancient civilization, and later it also destroyed for us the whole harvest of Mohammedan…
  5. God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment - but many other things ceased as well! Woman was God's second mistake.
  6. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is su…
  7. The God that Paul invented for himself, a God who 'reduced to absurdity' 'the wisdom of this world' (especially the two great enemies of su…
  8. Der Mensch der Erkenntniss muss nicht nur seine Feinde lieben, er muss auch seine Freunde hassen konnen.

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • truth
  • knowledge
  • faith

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