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In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

— Oscar Levy The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.

A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

Nietzsche, unlike Jesus Christ, did not mistake his common folk and their ideals; he knew all they wanted was bread and fish, and that they spurned the bread which “cometh from Heaven.”

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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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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