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From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Christ, with whom the multitude could not deal other than by making him into God Himself, thus enabling itself to venerate as God him whom they had loathed as man.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
He preaches no religious superficialities whatsoever, nothing at all of worship, nothing of God; he is truly godless.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Socrates and Christ speak to us everlastingly of mankind.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically.
"Get thee behind me, Satan!" — he was and remained truly free of the world.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Art shows how it loves, philosophy what it loves; mysticism knows only that it loves.
These absolutely extraordinary, eternally alive people penetrate to the groundless depth of human nature and understand the speech of ordinary people, of those who are scarcely alive from one day to the next.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about the interest of the one who judges.
In point of fact there are two kinds sorts of mysticism, differing from one another as the ranting of drunkards from the language of illumined spirits.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Great, strong, spiritual love — which is always at the same time a genuine, unsentimental love of man — cannot be without wrath. … Anger can no more be separated from love than flame and heat can from fire. Love and anger are a single fire of the Spirit.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
It is the Spirit of innerness as it is alive in him, the truly blessed man; it is the essence, ever being and never changing. It is also the essence of this our life, not merely an appendix granted it by some other essence, for which we would have to fulfill certain conditions.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
And so, from this day forth, we want all the more to let our thoughts revolve around and hover over Socrates and Christ at all times, openly taking pride that they are more alive for us than all those living today and that we listen to and love them as we do none of the living.
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)
Christ … made the blood of the specialists and leading spirits, the representatives of the people boil with his battle-cry: "I", "I", "I"! and provoked the enraged counterblast: We, We, We!
Our Christ : The Revolt of the Mystical Genius (1921)