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It would be as impossible for me to attack Christianity as it would be impossible for me to attack werewolves.

— Georg Brandes

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The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

An Essay on the Aristocratic Radicalism of Friedrich Nietzsche (1889)

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Ferdinand Lassalle (1881)

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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