Posted by: Valentina Salomoni
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
I have done that, ' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that'says my pride, and remains adamant. At last memory yields.
What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
To find everything profound, that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?