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Friedrich Nietzsche on Easter

1844–1900 Germany

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Don't throw away the hero in your soul. Hold your highest hopes holy.

Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885)

You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes."

That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this.

The Antichrist (1888)

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulus to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it — so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

The Antichrist (1888)

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